A Work in Progress: It gets Cold in Space



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It gets Cold in Space
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stairway


Original image


step 1 of 8

Crop out the background of the staircase layer.

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 1

step 2 of 8

Create new layer and paint cropped area black.
Add noise at Gaussian, Monochromatic, 110%.
Apply BLUR MORE, twice.
Use levels to get rid of the excessive white to create a starry background.

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 2

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Download Space brushes from deviant-art, and create a galaxy in the background (color, shape and size of your choice).

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 3

step 4 of 8

Create the planet and add any filters to it as desired, mine looks like this.. (do not worry about the oval shape on mine becuase it will be changed later..

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 4

step 5 of 8

Using a white brush create a jet stream looking image coming from both sides of the planet. Use radial blur to make it look better, also use any other filters you feel necessary.

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 5

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To colorize the jet stream you need to create new layer and set that to Color Burn and use any colors you like to colorize it. Also use Dodge tool and Burn tool to add glow effect if necessary.

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 6

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To colorize the snow (give it the effect that the jet stream is emitting light on to the snow) hold COMMAND or CTRL and click the layer of the staircase to highlight it... create a new layer and set the blend mode to DARKER COLOR... color with whatever color you feel is necessary the snow parts. Change the opacity of that layer to about 30% afterwords so that the paint is transparent and you can see the snow.

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 7

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If you like add a moon to the picture. (This time make sure you have the gaussian blur effect becuase there is no jet stream coming out to illuminate the whole planet.)
Dont forget to add glowing effect to it so that it looks like the jet stream is colorizing the glow.!

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Step 8

Final result

Creation of It gets Cold in Space: Final Result

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