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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Making a Shooting Star:
Use small soft brush, I used size 10, hardness 0 and make a small dot, maybe 25 px in diameter fo our picture.
Use Filter/Blur/Gaussian blur with diameter 0.8 (for my picture it is enough) and you get this:
Now rotate it to vertical position by Edit/Free transfor because in this position we will apply one distortion effect.
We will distort the comet a little with Filter/Distort/Shear using the settings like in the picture:
By this effect you should get something like the following:
Now move the comet to its position and use Layer/Layer style/Outer Glow to adjust its surroundings. Also decrease the opacity of the effect as well as of the comet itself.
You can also use Edit/Free transform to edit the shape even more, just hold Ctrl and move with the anchor points.
Hey, look! Shooting star ! Wish something !
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Submitted by Martin on 2006-04-16 23:26:09. Since then read 123463 times.
Scored 4.56 points out of maximum 5 by 75 votes.
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ShadeX shadex DOT forums AT gmail DOT com said on 2006-04-23 10:21:46Very 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
