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Galaxy Tutorial


1. Make a 400x400 document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is black.

2. Make a new Layer. Now apply Filter>Render>Clouds then Filter>Render>Difference Clouds press Ctrl+F a few times on the new layer. The trick is to get more white area then black.

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3. Now select the Eraser tool and go to the top and select the Soft Round eraser brush type:

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Erase the dark areas leaving the whiter vibrant areas. You want to remove a lot of the dark area as much as possible. Here's mine after erasing:

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Make sure your still on track, your Layers window should be like mine:

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4. Apply Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap to the Clouds layer. Use these settings:

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Set the Layer Blending option to Screen.

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Press Ctrl+U and apply these settings:

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5. Right click the layer and duplicate it 2 times. Leaving you with 3 layers with blending mode set to Screen.

Select the middle Layer:

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Apply Filter>Distort>Zig Zag and use these settings:

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6. Select the black background layer and apply Filter>Texture>Grain and use these settings:

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Press Ctrl+U and apply:

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Your done! Here's my final effect:

Galaxy Tutorial: Final Result



Author's URL: Think-Designs.com
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