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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KatWoman
Aug 14, 2008
"Cornofstarchy" wrote in message
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!

yes use the same outer glow effect but change the color (click the square of color and the color picker will appear, dropper it and that’s it) by default outer glow is a pale yellow

there’s also option to use gradient as the outer glow
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KatWoman
Aug 14, 2008
"Cornofstarchy" wrote in message
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!

DUH!! and DOING!! just occurred to me

even more simple
follow the tutorial exactly as shown
choose INVERT
(either as an adjustment layer above or Image>)
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Cornofstarchy
Aug 14, 2008
On Aug 14, 12:55 pm, "KatWoman" wrote:
DUH!! and DOING!! just occurred to me

even more simple
follow the tutorial exactly as shown
choose INVERT
(either as an adjustment layer above or Image>)

Hi KatWoman, I tried to invert the image but it still didn’t turn out nicely. Kinda yucky, actually. Any ideas? This is driving me insane!
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KatWoman
Aug 15, 2008
"Cornofstarchy" wrote in message
On Aug 14, 12:55 pm, "KatWoman" wrote:
DUH!! and DOING!! just occurred to me

even more simple
follow the tutorial exactly as shown
choose INVERT
(either as an adjustment layer above or Image>)

Hi KatWoman, I tried to invert the image but it still didn’t turn out nicely. Kinda yucky, actually. Any ideas? This is driving me insane!

the bluish final in that tutorial needs an adjustment layer

HUE SAT center slider to left >> desaturate
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Ragnar
Aug 16, 2008
Create the starfield as shown, then convert to LAB mode and invert the Lightness channel leaving the A & B channels unchanged. If this effect is not what you want, then I think you must be more specific.
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R.

"Cornofstarchy" wrote in message
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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