Quick and Easy Starfield

Shadow™ · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: Quick and Easy Starfield

Do this tutorial step by step and read it carefully. There are no pictures, because I don't think they are needed. If you follow the steps, you'll be fine.

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to do a simple starfield. For anyone who is interested in space art, this should get you started.

Start with a new document, however big you want it. Fill it with black.

Step 1. Create a new layer and fill it with black.

Step 2. Filter/noise/add noise with these the settings of 15, Gaussian and monochromatic. This should give a simple background with white dots everywhere, but as you can see it doesn't look spacey. We'll fix that.

Step 3. CTRL+L for levels and then give it these settings: 0, 0.40 and 160. Now there should be a bit more variation between your stars.

Step 4. Duplicate your star layer and then use filter/blur/Gaussian blur with these the setting of 5 and the blending mode of linear dodge. That should make your stars a bit brighter.

Step 5. Now our stars need some more variation. Make a new layer and then use filter/render/clouds with a blending mode of multiply.

Step 6. (Optional). Your starfield is complete. However, you may choose to make them a bit brighter or take more stars away. To make them brighter, go to your stars layer, duplicate it and set the top one to linear dodge. To make less stars, change the blending mode on your clouds layer to color dodge. If they aren't brighter, then repeat what we did above.

Well, that's it, hope this helped some people.

Jersey Hacker · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

Im gonna have to try that one, sounsd really good, and comes from a space scene expert, and the good thing is, the SOTW is now, and its on the theme of space, so its gonna be really helpful to everyone who enters, thanks alot Shadow

Jersey Hacker · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

This is what i got, didnt bother adding any other things but text, so that people can see a rough result

Price · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tut Shadow

Good job.

mantis8 · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

great tut

grafioso · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: GalaxyField

Great tut! I combined this tut with what I learnt about colour blending from your sig tut. Here's the result:

I basically I changed the blend mode of the cloud render to hard light, erased some of the stars on the "gaussian blur layer" in the black areas (this makes those stars less brighter) and added three color balance layers (red, yellow and blue). Result was a sort of galaxy effect.