Ok here we are going to learn how to make a simple planet skin.
1. Start by usual clicking File, New and set the Width to 760 and Height 375
2. Now you will want to Fill the Background with a Black colour you can do this by using the Fill Tool.
3. Now select the Elliptical Marquee Tool as below you can find it usual by Right Clicking the top left hand corner of the box as shown below. Once you have selected it you will now need to draw a circle, hold down the left mouse button and drag out a circle whatever size you want your planet to be.
4. Next go and click Filter, Render and Differnence Clouds not Clouds next you will want to click Ctrl and F a few times to get the desired effect of how many amount of lines and marking in your planet you want.
5. As soon as you are happy with your planet it should look a little like something below.
6. Now we want to make it a little more 3d so click onto Filter, Distort and Spherize and make sure it is set at 100 then click Ok.
7. Now we want to start adding rays out from the planet so click Select, Inverse.
8. Click on Filter, Blur, Radial Blur.
9. A box will pop up like below, set the amount to 100 the blur method to zoom and the quality to good and then click Ok.
10. Next its times to add some colour so click the gradient tool and then a box will appear rite at the top of the menu bar looking like the gradient toll icon.
11. You will be presented with a box like below you want to click for whatever colour or gradient you desire but I usual pick the orange one as it has a good effect.
12. After the colour has been set and you have clicked ok at the top of the screen you will see mode make sure you select Colour Burn as soon as you click onto it you will see now that your cursor is a little cross now if you click on the bottom of your planet and drag it up through the diameter of it and let go you will see how a colour is added on do this until you are happy with the effect. Remember if your not happy you can always click Ctrl and Z to go back.
13. Next its time to add a little more coolness to it ooo what a word lol so click Image, Adjustments and contrast and a new box will appear. Drag the contrast slider along until you are happy with the effect that you see.
14. Job done you have created your own planet skin. Now as an extra touch you can get the smudge tool set it to around 50% Opacity and brush size of 15 and smudge out the spike effect that you see below from my finish main_bg file. Enjoy and remember to save as main_bg then create the rest of the pieces for your skins you can easily cut and paste parts of your main_bg file to your other skin parts. Why not even add some stars like mine below.
1. Start by usual clicking File, New and set the Width to 760 and Height 375
2. Now you will want to Fill the Background with a Black colour you can do this by using the Fill Tool.
3. Now select the Elliptical Marquee Tool as below you can find it usual by Right Clicking the top left hand corner of the box as shown below. Once you have selected it you will now need to draw a circle, hold down the left mouse button and drag out a circle whatever size you want your planet to be.
4. Next go and click Filter, Render and Differnence Clouds not Clouds next you will want to click Ctrl and F a few times to get the desired effect of how many amount of lines and marking in your planet you want.
5. As soon as you are happy with your planet it should look a little like something below.
6. Now we want to make it a little more 3d so click onto Filter, Distort and Spherize and make sure it is set at 100 then click Ok.
7. Now we want to start adding rays out from the planet so click Select, Inverse.
8. Click on Filter, Blur, Radial Blur.
9. A box will pop up like below, set the amount to 100 the blur method to zoom and the quality to good and then click Ok.
10. Next its times to add some colour so click the gradient tool and then a box will appear rite at the top of the menu bar looking like the gradient toll icon.
11. You will be presented with a box like below you want to click for whatever colour or gradient you desire but I usual pick the orange one as it has a good effect.
12. After the colour has been set and you have clicked ok at the top of the screen you will see mode make sure you select Colour Burn as soon as you click onto it you will see now that your cursor is a little cross now if you click on the bottom of your planet and drag it up through the diameter of it and let go you will see how a colour is added on do this until you are happy with the effect. Remember if your not happy you can always click Ctrl and Z to go back.
13. Next its time to add a little more coolness to it ooo what a word lol so click Image, Adjustments and contrast and a new box will appear. Drag the contrast slider along until you are happy with the effect that you see.
14. Job done you have created your own planet skin. Now as an extra touch you can get the smudge tool set it to around 50% Opacity and brush size of 15 and smudge out the spike effect that you see below from my finish main_bg file. Enjoy and remember to save as main_bg then create the rest of the pieces for your skins you can easily cut and paste parts of your main_bg file to your other skin parts. Why not even add some stars like mine below.
