Hi I'd thought I share how to make a simple space background/scene:

1. Create a new picture (any size is generally good)

2. Change the Foreground Color to black

3. click the fill tool (SHIFT-Bkey) and make your entire image black

4. goto: Filters>Noise and select "scatter hsv"

5. Make sure the hue is set at 255!
By playing with the value and the holdness you can create small or large amounts of stars.
By playing with the saturation you can change the pattern. when you are finnished click OK.

I came up with something like this:



6. Next use the G-flare (filters>light effects==>Gflare) and the FlareFX (filters>leight effects==>FlareFX) to acheive the planets and suns.

I Like making my own planets but thats another tutorial :h:

By using this tutorial I came up with this:



You can a killer "hyperspace" effect by using filters>blur>motion blur and using the zoom function.

Have fun!

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I like to desaturate it afterwards. Then I fool with the levels tool untill I get the right amount of stars and at the right brightness. Nice tut.

Stars from black! Ah! Brilliant!

lol Nice tut.

It's not really made from this tut, but it's the same concept.

I did this a WHILE back, kinda used what you did (looking back on it, the planets look SO 'primitive').

PS I have a few newer and cleaner looking ones but I'll need to dig those up.

My result:



Very nice tutorial. :h:

Nice tut. This could land me a few extra points on my report on Cosmos.

Anyways my result

Heres my Cosmos design

WOW...its been a long time since i have been here....lol

nice first tut--i am thinking of making my first tut--also on space scenes--when i get time--probably over christmas break--i hope. at the bottom is one that took me a really long time to make a long time ago.

I got it from greg martins tut.


i would suggest looking into greg martins tutorials seeing how he is the master of space art---look at his gallery

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/

Here's mine, I added sparkle to make some stars appear closer.

heres mine, its in my sig. what do u think?

it looks so real

This looks really nice...



Thanks a lot for the tutorial!

I clicked on FIll Whole Section, and I set the Hue to 225, no stars came up

Very cool tutorial. Have used gimp for over a week and here is my results.



Thanks for the tut.

Could you please tell us how you created those planets? your link didn't lead to any tutorials. I can create the basic mercury-type planet or one like a moon from Jupiter or Saturn, but not like yours.

Yes how do you make planets?????

This is the first tut i have done, and the first day i have used GIMP and it's impressed me Thanks

heres mine
[C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\My Documents\My Pictures\Space.jpg

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heres my result!!! [img]http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g193/FlyingMario123/coolstartrekpicimade.png[/img]

<img src=http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g193/FlyingMario123/coolstartrekpicimade.png>

aghhh i cant post the image or somthin

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g193/ ... cimade.png