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I made everything in this picture except the asteroid (I made the planet, made the planet texture, made the stars, the dust trail, etc)
Planet [Large Image]
Stars look like noise with a lowpass threshold and clamped from white.
Dust trail isn’t bad.
I can see your planet’s bad edges.
And the very light ring inside the edges of the planet have too sharp of a falloff.
How would I soften the falloff? And what would you recommend I do to hide the edges?
is this one of your firsts?
My first attempt at anything non-text
Stars look awful.
What I do for stars is make a black layer and add a noise (as frell mentioned) and use:
10% for the amount
Gaussian for distribution
Then set it to monochromatic.
Then go to image > adjustment > levels and use 65, 1, 99.
Mess around with the layer blending, but in the past I’ve used screen a few times.
Thanks, I’ll have a try
http://9tutorials.com/2007/06/20/make-a-real-planet.html
That about covers it. Come back and itll be 400% better
much better
I agree, could you give me any tips on the moon? It doesn’t look right
well it vanishes into thin air, i don’t think opacity should be 0 on a solid object.
look at moon
see stars that are millions of light years away on the other side
problem?
Ah, I see, I will get round that and post my efforts 
The craters on the first one don’t make since. The boarders on eachother overlap. One must of been there before another came so the newer one would be over the older one… 
Yeah that was just bad choice of textures to blend.
It’s a personal choice, but planets with water look so much nicer.
Also, your large source of light (lens flare) is a bluish white, but all of your stars are yellow/orange.
How would I create a planet with water? And I will make the stars different colours next time (some red, some white, some orange)
Overlay 2 planets, one with green and one with blue. Use clouds to get the shape of the green for the planet and have the rest of that blue, then sharpen it a lot. Follow that up with the blue planet to make the water more definitive. I’m sure exactly how you would go about it, but that’s the best I can think of.
