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Creating a galaxy with Photoshop: Building the star field

Creating a galaxy with Photoshop: Building the star field

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Creating a galaxy with Photoshop: Building the star field

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What we're going to do this week is create an entire galaxy, so right now, since we're starting off with a white screen, we're going to create a couple of brushes, and I'm going to take my paint brush, and I have black. I open up my brushes engine, and I'm going to just go in here and draw a couple of tones here, so let me make my brush a little bigger, and what I'm going to do is, I'm going to select a soft edge brush. Nice, soft edge brush like this, and I go into my brush engine, and I can see what I have. What I want to do is, that's what it's doing right now, so let's make it a little smaller. Right there, and what I want to do is make this fade out, so I go down here to transfer modes, and I say fade. I'm going to set this to about 25, so I click, and go straight above it, and shift click. There. Created a nice little stroke that fades out as it gets to 25 steps, and I'll start at the original spot right there. Click, and come down here, and then shift click. There we go. Its…

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