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January 8, 2011
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I'm very proud of this one.. It started out as something so unbelievably not like this, I can't believe it ended up here. Its made in Photoshop CS5, with fractals generated by apophysis, and a bit of cloud photos. The planets were made with 3Ds Max 2011.

Comments are welcome, and fav's are very very appreciated :)
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~WillyMutuku Apr 11, 2013
love the hugeness in this picture
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~TALGA Jan 15, 2011
Excellent!
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~StAugustus Jan 16, 2011
Thank you! :D
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~DreamingCelestial Jan 9, 2011
My favorite part of the piece (which is very well done, kudos to you) isn't the middle. Rather, it's the contrast between the middle and everything else. I mean, you found the perfect balance between too much background (I'm calling everything not in the nebula in the middle and the planets background for ease) and too little. The far-off stars/nebula at the top really make this piece stand out (especially since there's no matching ones on the bottom, which IMO would detract from the middle and top).

Fantastic piece overall!
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~StAugustus Jan 10, 2011
Thank you, that's a wonderful compliment :D Glad you like it :)
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~penner2000 Jan 9, 2011
Wow - that surely is a fave!

Say, could u describe how exactly u did the background? I always seem to have troubles with it. What´s your method for making a starfield like this and how do u colorize/texture the background?
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~StAugustus Jan 9, 2011
Yes of course! Here's my tricks: the starfield was actually really easy, just a noise filter with levels applied to it. The thing is the part of the texture of the background is provided by a cloud stock, and I used that stock as a mask for the stars, giving them a nice flow. Also I added a few faint "hero" stars with a brush, just 1-3 pixels of basically a soft white dot.

For the nebula, the inside is basically "fractal vomit" - I got a lot of renders in Apophysis and arranged them to look pretty. Colour Dodge is your friend here. Manipulated cloud stocks provided the surrounding gas.

As for the background, my best suggestion is to use a cloud stock on overlay over a about 25% blackness colour. Thats usually how I get my textures. I hope that helped :D
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~penner2000 Jan 11, 2011
Thank you very much! I´ll try soon!
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~JKelly26 Jan 8, 2011  Student Digital Artist
Wow Augustus, this is truly stunning!
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~StAugustus Jan 9, 2011
Thanks man, I appreciate that a lot :)
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