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Making a digital star field

Making a digital star field - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making a digital star field

Alright gang, in this exercise, I have something really fun in store for you. It doesn't have that much to do with layers specifically, although it does require a couple of layers to pull it off. But we're going to create a Star Field using just a couple of filters and an Adjustment Layer, and that's it. Just like the one you see here inside the Martini Hour banner.psd file. This basic approach was actually used in a couple of Star Wars movies. Believe it or not, for a few of the establishing shots that you'd see for maybe four seconds out of window, you would see these kinds of stars made in Photoshop. So let's go back to Bright on black.psd which is found inside your 10_layers folder. And I've turned on all the layers inside of this composition. Otherwise, it's just the same as the saved version of the image. I'm going to press Control+Semi-colon or Command+ Semi-colon on the Mac to temporarily hide those guys. I'm going to click on the martini hour layer. Now I really want to…

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