Planetery masses/landscape

[Zenith84]

Hi

I've found one topic about that, but the title was not suitable for it so I decided to create new topic.

You've roccomended Terragen for creating landscapes, so I downloaded it and i tried a bit and eventualy menaged to achieve something i was pleased with (at least for that moment of my learning ). However, in your tutorials (planetery masses and rings) i've found that image:

http://biorust.com/tutorials/ps-plan...anded-full.jpg

Of course I realize to paint something like that would require much practice, but ok, I can paint planet, rings, with the help of terragen landscape but I'd like to ask about help with the sky effect, flare (can't get similar to that one) and with the effect caused by a light (miss the word, the area near the flare seems to be a bit foggy, or something like that)

Thx for help

[unleash]

Hmm,

I am not exactly sure, but I think that the ground in front of eveything is made in terragen. The rest, planet/ planet ring/ fog/ sky and flare are added in photoshop....

So you probably need to make a layer and start painting on that one.....

Don't know if this is THE answer...but I can't think of something else at the moment

[supertackyman]

the flare seems to be just a lens flare with a slight hue adjustment.

in order to use an example: load the aforementioned pic into ps. create a new layer and paint it black. then put a 105mm prime lens flare someplace inside the image. change the layer mode to screen, and the black paint will disappear. now, move the flare under the top planet and adjust hue/saturation. it should look very similar to the other planets "sun"

lens flares are what I use on my planetscapes.

[lindans]

That is a nice image. Terragen produces some amazing pictures!