Starfield with White Background

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Cornofstarchy
Aug 14, 2008
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Hi Everyone, I’m trying to create a starfield with a white background similar to this one: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_f ield.html (except this one has a black background). I managed to get the stars displaying nicely but I’m still having trouble creating the glow effect. If I use linear burn, the glow becomes unnatural (sharpish around the edges and not very glowy). I also tried playing around with the colour balance and the edges of the glow seem to have smoothed out a wee bit but still not enough. Am I taking the wrong approach to do this or does someone have a better way to accomplish the effect? Thanks!
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ronviers
Aug 14, 2008
On Aug 14, 12:05 pm, Cornofstarchy wrote:
Hi Everyone, I’m trying to create a starfield with a white background

Hi,
I think you should look at blurring (Filter>Blur>Gausian>Blur) a clouds layer (Filer>Render>Clouds) then using that blurred layer as a mask for the original unblurred layer.

Good luck,
Ron
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Cornofstarchy
Aug 18, 2008
On Aug 14, 3:50 pm, "" wrote:
On Aug 14, 12:05 pm, Cornofstarchy wrote:

Hi Everyone, I’m trying to create a starfield with a white background

Hi,
I think you should look at blurring (Filter>Blur>Gausian>Blur) a clouds layer (Filer>Render>Clouds) then using that blurred layer as a mask for the original unblurred layer.

Good luck,
Ron

Hi Ron, I’ll look into the mask thing (not very good at masking) but I will try. Thanks for the suggestion!
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ronviers
Aug 18, 2008
Cornofstarchy wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion!

You’re welcome. The tutorial you are working from is a very good one. I remember it from when I was starting out. With the approach I suggested you can vary the radius of the blur and the scale of the noise to get more gas and particles. You can also apply it locally, like for a cluster, by flattening the layer then using the paint brush on another mask.
Masks are something worth spending a lot of time on.

Good luck,
Ron
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Cornofstarchy
Aug 19, 2008
On Aug 18, 5:32 am, "" wrote:
Cornofstarchy wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion!

You’re welcome. The tutorial you are working from is a very good one. I remember it from when I was starting out. With the approach I suggested you can vary the radius of the blur and the scale of the noise to get more gas and particles. You can also apply it locally, like for a cluster, by flattening the layer then using the paint brush on another mask.
Masks are something worth spending a lot of time on.

Good luck,
Ron

Did you happen to use another tutorial for the masks? A good one perhaps?
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ronviers
Aug 19, 2008
On Aug 18, 7:07 pm, Cornofstarchy wrote:
On Aug 18, 5:32 am, "" wrote:

Cornofstarchy wrote:
tutorial for the masks?

Not really, at least not one I can remember. Mostly I posted about a million questions to this forum. Some of the best tutorials are at retouchpro.com. I do not know of any specific ones because they will not let me join, because I use google for email, but I know they have a lot of useful information as well as many nice and helpful members. Why are you learning Photoshop? What area of graphics are you in or planning to be in?
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OM
Aug 20, 2008
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:45 -0700 (PDT), ""
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I do not know of any specific ones because they will
not let me join, because I use google for email

….Which is really retarded, because gmail’s pretty reliable WRT not allowing spammers to stick around. But some forum admins set up shop not to provide a forum so people can help one another, but so they can play sick power tripping games.

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ronviers
Aug 20, 2008
On Aug 19, 9:13 pm, OM wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:45 -0700 (PDT), ""

wrote:
I do not know of any specific ones because they will
not let me join, because I use google for email

…Which is really retarded, because gmail’s pretty reliable WRT not allowing spammers to stick around. But some forum admins set up shop not to provide a forum so people can help one another, but so they can play sick power tripping games.

OM
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I assumed that the policy would be a short-term fix while they made adjustments, I am a member of several other forums and they managed to work it out, but I checked back recently and the ban remains in place – I guess they are happy with the fix.

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