Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a starfield with a white background
similar to this one: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/t...tar_field.html
(except this one has a black background). I managed to get the stars
displaying nicely but I'm still having trouble creating the glow
effect. If I use linear burn, the glow becomes unnatural (sharpish
around the edges and not very glowy). I also tried playing around
with the colour balance and the edges of the glow seem to have
smoothed out a wee bit but still not enough. Am I taking the wrong
approach to do this or does someone have a better way to accomplish
the effect? Thanks!

On Aug 14, 12:05 pm, Cornofstarchy <cornofstar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a starfield with a white background


Hi,
I think you should look at blurring (Filter>Blur>Gausian>Blur) a
clouds layer (Filer>Render>Clouds) then using that blurred layer as a
mask for the original unblurred layer.

Good luck,
Ron

On Aug 14, 3:50pm, "ronvi...@gmail.com" <ronvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 14, 12:05 pm, Cornofstarchy <cornofstar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a starfield with a white background
>
> Hi,
> I think you should look at blurring (Filter>Blur>Gausian>Blur) a
> clouds layer (Filer>Render>Clouds) then using that blurred layer as a
> mask for the original unblurred layer.
>
> Good luck,
> Ron

Hi Ron, I'll look into the mask thing (not very good at masking) but I
will try. Thanks for the suggestion!

Cornofstarchy wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion!

You're welcome. The tutorial you are working from is a very good one.
I remember it from when I was starting out. With the approach I
suggested you can vary the radius of the blur and the scale of the
noise to get more gas and particles. You can also apply it locally,
like for a cluster, by flattening the layer then using the paint brush
on another mask.
Masks are something worth spending a lot of time on.

Good luck,
Ron

On Aug 18, 5:32am, "ronvi...@gmail.com" <ronvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cornofstarchy wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion!
>
> You're welcome. The tutorial you are working from is a very good one.
> I remember it from when I was starting out. With the approach I
> suggested you can vary the radius of the blur and the scale of the
> noise to get more gas and particles. You can also apply it locally,
> like for a cluster, by flattening the layer then using the paint brush
> on another mask.
> Masks are something worth spending a lot of time on.
>
> Good luck,
> Ron

Did you happen to use another tutorial for the masks? A good one
perhaps?

On Aug 18, 7:07 pm, Cornofstarchy <cornofstar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 5:32 am, "ronvi...@gmail.com" <ronvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cornofstarchy wrote:
> tutorial for the masks?

Not really, at least not one I can remember. Mostly I posted about a
million questions to this forum. Some of the best tutorials are at
retouchpro.com. I do not know of any specific ones because they will
not let me join, because I use google for email, but I know they have
a lot of useful information as well as many nice and ful members.
Why are you learning Photoshop? What area of graphics are you in or
planning to be in?

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:45 -0700 (PDT), "ronviers@gmail.com"
<ronviers@gmail.com> wrote:

>I do not know of any specific ones because they will
>not let me join, because I use google for email

....Which is really retarded, because gmail's pretty reliable WRT not
allowing spammers to stick around. But some forum admins set up shop
not to provide a forum so people can one another, but so they can
play sick power tripping games.

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On Aug 19, 9:13 pm, OM <om@all_trolls_must_DIE.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:45 -0700 (PDT), "ronvi...@gmail.com"
>
> <ronvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I do not know of any specific ones because they will
> >not let me join, because I use google for email
>
> ...Which is really retarded, because gmail's pretty reliable WRT not
> allowing spammers to stick around. But some forum admins set up shop
> not to provide a forum so people can one another, but so they can
> play sick power tripping games.
>
> OM
> --
> ]=====================================[
> ] OMBlog -http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [
> ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [
> ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [
> ]=====================================[

I assumed that the policy would be a short-term fix while they made
adjustments, I am a member of several other forums and they managed to
work it out, but I checked back recently and the ban remains in place
– I guess they are happy with the fix.