Comet or Shooting Star
DescriptionHave you ever seen a falling star? Well even if you didnt with this tutorial you will be able to make one yourself.
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Shooting Star
In this tutorial we will add stars to a photo that doesnt have any ant after that we will make one shooting star. Astrology calls. Astronomy as well :)
Open the photo with dark background, preferably a night scene. If you dont have any, use mine, here it is:
Make new layer and fill it with white. Use Brush Pallet Window/Brushes to set the following:
Diameter (depending on the size of the picture) is 5px
Size jitter (means variation - some will be small some big) 70%
That was about the brush. Now, in that new layer use Brush tool with Black color as foreground color on white background. Because of the previous settings, you will get something like this:
Now, to isolate the stars itself, use Magic Wand tool and select the white background. After that, inverse selection Select/Inverse selection. Submitted by Martin on 2006-04-16 23:26:09. Since then read 134667 times.Pages
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Discussion
ShadeX shadex DOT forums AT gmail DOT com said on 2006-04-23 10:21:46
Very nice tutorial! Good job
Elena mystra307 AT hotmail DOT com said on 2006-05-25 23:26:46
Fantastic. A very good idea to get beauty "summer" night pictures
Martin mato AT t-tutorials DOT com said on 2006-05-26 11:31:18
I am glad you liked it. It was not that hard to make from the technical point of view, but the problem was that I have not seen the shooting star for longer than 2 nanoseconds :) Good idea, I am so proud of myself :D thx
Du hikaruutadu AT yahoo DOT com said on 2006-06-05 19:37:06
XD god, i never know make a starry night could be this easy.
Astronomer salesblue AT hotmail DOT com said on 2006-06-22 11:28:06
Very nice tutorial, but as an amateur-astronomer I can say that the stars as well as the comet look lousy, sorry.
Dan chronosoldier21 AT gmail DOT com said on 2006-07-16 14:53:59
i would like permission to use your nightsky image for photoshop, and also to post on DeviantART. Base Image credits will be given. Email me for the answer
Thanks,
Dan
Tyler Tjay0609 AT yahoo DOT com said on 2008-04-30 10:52:13
Thanks so much. It's 1 in the morning of my girlfriend's birthday and i needed a picture to put on the front of the jewel case. i won't go into detail, but you saved me here. Thanks big time
