justins art blog: January 2014

HOW to make This SPACE GIF

step 1

first thing is to make the background layer black.
next you want to select a brush and make it 3 pixels and white
after that you go to the window tab and select the brush tab

Step 2

shape Dynamics settings -size jitter 100%

Scattering- turn on both axis, axis 1000%, count of 1

other dynamics- flow100%

then before painting across create a new layer then paint on it

Step 3

Use the ellipse tool from the tool bar to draw out an big circle that covers just a little bit of the bottom of the picture
then turn the circle black

step 4 - add an outer glow, inner glow and, inner shadow.

click on layers tab at top and go to layer style and click on inner glow
Inner glow- blend mode= linear dodge, color 62e7ff, size 20, range 60
Outer glow- blend mode= linear dodge, color 59b3ff, size 10
Inner shadow-blend mode= linear dodge, color 3599ff, turn off global light, angle 90, distance 10 and size 70

Step 5

Search up on Google for a planet texture.
copy and paste the planet texture you find to a new document then drag it onto the space document.
place the texture just over the circle

Step 6

To add the round feel to the planet you need to hold the control key and click on the circle on the layer area.
once you do that, than you click on the filter tab, then click on distort, then spherize.
once you have spherized then press the add layer mask button to take away the extra texture

step 7

On the layer with the planet change the blend mode to be overlay with an opacity of 70%

then above the planet layer add a new layer
next hold commander control and click on the circle again to select it
then get yourself a big but soft brush, color aed077
then just put bush stroke at the top of the planet

Step 8

make a delicate of the planet layer
then right click on the new layer then take off the layer styles on the new layer
once you have clear the layer styles add another in glow to the new circle
Outer glow- blend mode= linear dodge, 100% opacity, color 419aff, size 155 range 60
the go into free transform mode, then squeeze the planet in so that the glow is higher in the middle

Step 9

Add a new layer behind the to circle layers
then take a white soft brush about 200 pix and make a dot at the very top of the circle
next on another new layer draw a white horizontal line not much longer then the last thing glow you gust drew with a small brush
then go up to the filter tab and click blur the then motion blur. set angle at 0 and distance at 500

Step 10

Create another new layer right above the stars layer
next for the clouds you need to change the colors in the bottom left hand corner
the top color should be 3e78cf
and for the background color make it a pitch black
next to add the clouds go to filter, then render than select cloads

Step 11

Next add an levels adjustment to the clouds by going to image, then adjust then to level
next change the middle number from 1.00 to .70
Next duplicate the clouds layer
on the bottom layer change the blend to soft light
and on the top cloud layer lower the opacity to 25%

Now you are done with making the planet and space

step 12

find a picture of and satellite on Google then copy and paste it on to a photo shop document
then use the magic wound tool and lasso tool to cut it out
then drag it to the planet picture

step 13

place the satellite in a place where it looks like it is orbiting the planet then save it as a jpeg
next move the satellite very slightly in the direction you want it to be orbiting
then keep doing this till the satellite makes it all the way around the planet

Step 14

once you have all the layer saved in jpeg's open up all thejpegs and drag them onto one the first pic
after you do that you are ready to start animating
next you go to the windows tab and select animation
once to have the animation bar up click the drop down on the right and select make make slides from layers
that will make all of your layers turn into slides you can change the speed of the animation all depending on what you like