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Corey replicates the Planet Photoshop background by demonstrating how to create the star field and the nebulous clouds.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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43 Comments

  1. David O'Hara said on — May 20, 2008 @ 7:03 pm

    WOW! Excellent Tutorial!

    How do you remember all of this?

    Well done!

    GREAT!!

    David
    :-)

  2. Phillip Anthony Briles said on — May 20, 2008 @ 7:56 pm

    Awesome tut, Corey!

    I may be the only Pser that really appreciates your background tuts. These are invaluable for designing various web pages and of course, image back drops.

    Great stuff.

  3. cody said on — May 20, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

    That is a really cool effect!

  4. Mitzs said on — May 20, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

    As always Cory. You rock and so do your tutorials!

  5. Sharpless... said on — May 21, 2008 @ 6:12 am

    Great tutorial!
    I never knew how to make stars

  6. GBee said on — May 21, 2008 @ 11:51 am

    Corey you totally rock! That was such a great tutorial. You always provide the creative sanity in my engineer dominated world.

  7. Dani Crisan said on — May 21, 2008 @ 3:22 pm

    good tutorial ;)

  8. Daniel said on — May 21, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

    Cool

  9. Bruce Johnson said on — May 21, 2008 @ 6:38 pm

    Fantastic Tutorial!! Corey you hit it out of the park again.

  10. yuda said on — May 22, 2008 @ 3:18 am

    it’s great but for me as a freshman need long time to learn it step by step… thanks

  11. kurt said on — May 22, 2008 @ 11:16 am

    another excellent tutorial, cory - thanks a lot.

  12. Celeste said on — May 22, 2008 @ 5:23 pm

    Totally kool tutorial!! Your tuts are the best.

  13. Jeremy said on — May 23, 2008 @ 10:40 am

    Cool Tut! But when I am doing the stars after the levels adjustment, I have no twinkling stars.

    Is this good or bad??

    My end result isn’t like Corey’s either.

  14. sharpless... said on — May 23, 2008 @ 1:11 pm

    Your tuts are the best.

    jes , the best photoshop site!

    But can you make a tutorial for signatures for forum pleas???

  15. vu said on — May 23, 2008 @ 5:45 pm

    YOU ARE AMAZING, i AM GONNA TRY THIS OUT. i HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG TO CHANGE MY mYSPACE BACKGROUND. tHaNKS

  16. vu said on — May 23, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

    check out my new myspace background at: myspace.com/cutiteo. Thanks for you tutorial, Corey. By the wayz, How do you resize the image bigger? I Don’t want the image to be repeated on the backgroound. Thanks in advance

  17. thuhientnk said on — May 25, 2008 @ 2:46 am

    good tutorial ;-)

    thanks

  18. Design said on — May 25, 2008 @ 5:27 am

    WOW!!! Love it. Super effect and pretty easy too. Thanks a lot.

  19. a.prakash said on — May 28, 2008 @ 8:55 pm

    what a great design is this .but this vedio gives the easy way of done this design

  20. mistir said on — May 29, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

    Yes, indeed great tutorials, but can I have the transcript for them? I mean instructions step by step. I would like to try to create the effects myself.
    Thanks.

  21. DarkThoughts said on — May 31, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

    Hey i really enjoyed this tut, but i got stuck on the Luminosity part. Im using Vista (photoshop cs3) and for my Luminosity it doesn’t sparkle/twinkle like yours. Ive never used this Luminosity before so its kind of new to me.
    Could any possibly help me?
    I’m sorry for the trouble..

  22. Vamp said on — June 1, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    Good tutorial. However in you said press shift+delete to go to fill options after you made the first empty layer but its actually Shift+Backspace.

  23. Márcio Guerra said on — June 2, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    Again and again…
    Nice tutorial! From scratch, hein? Good one!

    Márcio Guerra

  24. DarkThoughts said on — June 3, 2008 @ 1:53 am

    Okay dude! YOU ARE AWESOME!! i finally got it to work =D excellent tutorial dude, ill be sure to use these effect for school assignments to give me that extra mark =D thank you and hope this continues =D

  25. Anton said on — June 5, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

    Thanks man, you thought a noob something new :) Check my “Website” if you wanna see the result.

  26. A3DLover said on — June 7, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

    Wow awesome work and tutorial i’ve been ignoring my photoshop suite (CS1) for years up till a few months ago this will definitely help with compositions and backgrounds which i use Apophysis and Bryce 6.1 for that and skies.
    Thanks

  27. Emil said on — June 8, 2008 @ 10:27 pm

    (WARNING STRESSED OUT PERSON) ok i think im a retard cause im doing the select the stars thingy so they start shinin then i make another layer expand them by one pixel they start shinin even more (this is the part where i really scru up) so i have my colors on default and everything u said i press ctrl+backspace (i have a comp) more stars in background the shiny stars just get bigger and i’ve tried this once i got it but im trying again and im failing miserably. i cat get the stars to stop shinin
    If anyone has any ideas pleas e contanct me my email is : emil_aka_lime@hotmail.com

  28. Website Design said on — June 10, 2008 @ 10:30 pm

    Stars make my world - go - round lol. Awesome tutorial Corey, can’t wait to put it to good use =0)

  29. Andy said on — June 13, 2008 @ 9:39 am

    The luminosity shortcut doesnt work on..?? :S option+command+~ does not work in my photoshop.. anybody know why?

  30. Karl Bush said on — June 16, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

    Where can I download the tutorials for future reference so I won’t have to be on the Internet just to view a tutorial?

  31. biscuitd said on — June 18, 2008 @ 3:53 pm

    heyi saw this and its sweet buty delema is i cant get the outr-glw on the stars to work bcuase im on pc i tryed clicking on the rgb one which i what i thought you said was the right on but it didnt work for me

    idk what im doing wrogcan you help

  32. biscuitd said on — June 18, 2008 @ 3:58 pm

    sry i missed that you have to hldcntrl when you click rgb

  33. Konum said on — June 22, 2008 @ 4:06 am

    Just awsome. Simple, easy to remember and to do. Thnaks!

  34. Konum said on — June 24, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

    Well, with this tutorial and the tutorial of the new planet one, i did this last night.
    http://konum.deviantart.com/art/Sunrise-at-space-89631965

    Hope you like it :)

  35. Photoshop Tutorials said on — June 25, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

    awesome tutorial, thanks

  36. Amaekil Shath said on — June 26, 2008 @ 12:21 pm

    dude that was freakin sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bin wonderin how 2 do stuff like that 4 ages!
    gona get 2 it rite away!! :D:D:D

    CHEERS!!!

  37. Sue said on — June 29, 2008 @ 12:05 am

    wow I did it!! amazing tuts on your site here corey!! thanks!!!

  38. leetah88 said on — July 25, 2008 @ 5:32 am

    wow… I have really learned a lot from your tutorials, I’m kind of a beginner, but once i started learning how to do so many cool things from your tutorials, I kind of became addicted. Now I see why my little sister spends so much time playing around with photoshop :D

  39. cici said on — August 6, 2008 @ 3:28 am

    where is the warp tool?i dont have it in the menu???i have the photoshop7 and CS8 and nothing…or im stupid…p.s. i have a pc not mac>>>please help me…thanx >>great work-uROCK!!!

  40. Kim said on — August 19, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

    That’s cool Corey!!! Every time I play your tutorials my dog starts barking. She must think there’s a strange man in the house. :-)

  41. Leo said on — October 7, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

    That was awesome along with the lightspeed one. How do you come up with this stuff!

  42. `buddy said on — October 17, 2008 @ 7:16 am

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful tutorials

  43. Hexdrin said on — November 10, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

    How do you get the stars to “twinkle”???? Any help would be great. Thanks

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