This tutorial worked beautifully! The only thing I did differently was to fix the shadow layer blocking the backgroung layer, I added a Select -> Grow 1 pixel, before the Select -> Invert. This elliminates the fine white line along the bottom of the planet. Again it is an awesome tutorial.

Greg

Hey Jedi. I had the same problem the first time I tried using the warp. I had to left click and move the mouse around in the preview window. Since I had not used warp before I did not know that I had to do that. I did figure it out eventually. Hope that helps.

Greg

Excellent! Thanks.. worked like a charm!

Here is mine.


With a couple of modificatins of course. :w:

Can any one think of a way to get realistic craters for a moon?

Thanks for your replies, everyone. It looks like my first tutorial is a success. :h:

Hmmm... moon craters... I would try this. Create a new black layer and add elliptical selections. Fill these with white. Then use smudge, pulling from inside the circles to the outside with a relatively low rate. Select circular areas in the middles of each crater and fill with black. Maybe blur a little bit, then map to sphere and use as a bumpmap. I don't know how well that will work. :a: I'll need to try it when I get a chance.

The thing to keep in mind is that the lighter (towards white) the higher the result.

Here is one I put together..

Modifications:
Clouds... Duplicated it and flipped it horizontally
Bump... used an image of craters :w:

This is what I got. Please C&C.:h:

Nice results, everyone. :h:

Finally I got time to experiment this great tutorial.
Most time consunimg part was Gussian Blurr. And final xcf became about 80 MB. I followed exact steps with 3000x3000 canvas and did nto add anything my own.


here is my jpg at 85% quality just to reduce filesize.



thanks again marvin.

regards

http://www.deviantart.com/view/33898993/

Theres mine

Wow excellent use of the filters. Yes, this is definitely the best planet tutorial ever created for the GIMP.
Btw, you could create excellent result by using dirt/mud texture too. But the use of the filters to create those backgrounds is an excellent discovery. As someone mentioned, that techinique could be used to create brushless grungy backgrounds.
Very very nice job there

awesome, the diffuse and highlight part took me several attempts but well worth it

thats my best result, shrunken down of coarse. but i ended up doing the bump after i put it all together, for some reason i scrolled right past that.

Here's my first effort with it---
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34112729/

AWESOME TUTORIAL!!

This would be the result if you went 1/2 the numbers of the original. i.e. 1500x1500, the blurs were roughly half too. And by the way it is an awsome tutorial, very easy to follow. 10/10, A+, 100% etc

The Iwarp isn't working for me......

When you get the IWarp box, did you select Swirl CW or Swirl CCW and then click and drag in the preview box? You make the changes you want there, then click OK to apply those changes to the entire image.

great tutorial - although i didnt understand and didnt do the highlight and diffuse layers but imo it came out quite well

Here's what I came up with. I tweeked it just a little

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/baseballwinner22/Redplanet.jpg

I'm not saying your tutorial was hard to follow but I just couldn't do it. I managed the start bit but just then did it my own way. When I make an elipticle selection with Cnrt+Shift it doesn't select it?

Ah I figured it out. Yes it is an excellent tutorial but I am a noob and I have a poor concentration span! Sorry! Anyway I managed to get up the sphere bit and carried on in my own way. It didn't turn out too great but anyway. Here' my result

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9964/space1yw.jpg

great tutorial, gimp is pretty amazing

And oh this was what I came to with that tutorial:



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very good! Over1ord, if you want an Earth-like planet, you can go far by following the steps, but using blue and green. For example:


I'm not entirely sure how I did that. But this way you get variety in your Earth-like planets.


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