New Planet

Here’s a quick how-to on the planet graphic we had on the Planet Photoshop teaser page.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has earned numerous Photoshop awards in design and illustration and has contributed writing to Photoshop User Magazine and PhotoshopElementsUser.com. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, Photoshop TV.

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Nihilus said on — April 16, 2008 @ 6:38 pm

Thanks so much for sharing, favorited this.
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Venkatx5 said on — May 8, 2008 @ 4:21 am

Excellent Tutor.. Thanks a Ton Corey..
Chris said on — September 29, 2008 @ 9:37 pm

You might also try using the radial gradient selection when masking the planet.
nikhil said on — October 1, 2008 @ 3:35 am

amazing tutorial
Markox said on — October 12, 2008 @ 6:46 am

this is top 10 coolest things I saw in all photoshop tutorials, this is so easy and soo good =)
Ramso said on — October 24, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

thanks alot for this, you should do some more of these your good at explaining
Atle said on — October 29, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

It would be great if it was possible to show how to add texture to the planet… most of the tutorials out there on how to create an planet with texture, is not realy good…
this tutorial is very good looking too but i do miss the textures on the planet
DA said on — November 12, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

WOW really nice tutorials I no i’m going to use this on one of the pic i’m making thz
jocke said on — July 19, 2009 @ 8:53 am

Help me. When i create a layer mask it is not emty like in the tutorial, it’s round like the planet i’m trying too do. So when i’m going from black too transparent it gose wrong. Plz help me.
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