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Creating Planets from Scratch

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We start with the image we created earlier, which is a starry night sky:

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We will then make a perfect circle selection with the Elliptical Marquee tool and holding Shift as we size:

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We then choose two colors in our palette that we want our planet to be. Then we goto Filter > Render > Clouds.

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Next, we want to give our Planet some depth, so goto Filter > Distort > Spherize (with the selection still in place):

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And then we can goto Filter > Render > Lighting Effects. You're encouraged to play around with the settings to get the right effect you want. For this example, I used a Spotlight with 67 Intensity.

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We can now deselect our planet and then open up the Layer Styles for it. We want to add an Inner Shadow, but change the angle to -45, and you may want to reduce the opacity and play with the Distance and Size:

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Now to add more texture to our Planet we can make the same selection as earlier, by Ctrl-clicking the planet layer, then revert our palette back to Black and White (press D), make a new Layer, and then we can goto Filter > Render > Clouds.

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Now all we need to do is set this new Layer's Blend Mode to Multiply, and we should have something like this:

Creating Planets from Scratch