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Oh, this took a long time to create, main due to PS CS3 just takes me longer in general to navigate. A tablet also doesn't exactly... help.

Lets see, The large planet, moon, and stars were all created in PS CS3 with a Wacom Graphire3, I think. Stock used from... I dunno, mcchaz and akajork's "ultimate planet resource pack". I'm sorry I don't have a link for it.

Lets see, most of the sun, the second planet behind the main planet, and the text were done in GIMP. It took much less time, and went quicker in general.

I originally planned to have a red sun, but I was an idiot and created the white flare on the planets first, therefore creating a huge pain to change that to red... which I still might do. I hate how GIMP doesn't go back to PS CS3 very well, because I wanted to try and work on it once I had done some on the other planet and junk....

Its wallpaper size.... or at least 1280x1024 size. It should scale to anything smaller quite easily.

I need more variation in stars and colors. I'm not too good at those things though. I'll try either on this one after I make the red sun glare work, and then add some other stars and colors to make it interesting.

The text... is meh. I like how some of the colors turned out, but I don't think its sharp enough. Typing of sharpening, PS sharpen sucks.... always has, probably always will. the GIMP did good sharpening on the surface, and probably would have made it clearer anyways if I had done the lens distortion with it. Huh... we'll see.

I think I've already made a lot of improvements over my first two pieces, although I still need some work on my planet atmosphere and star sections. As my third piece, I'm fairly happy with it.

Its my last ditch effort for akajork's and people's Scifi contest if I can't get anything else. I've got a plan for that too! just some majorly minor changes.
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SenatorSeth's avatar
It's good. You did a lot better with the text than usual. My biggest issue is the white atmosphere on the planets. It really doesn't fit and stands out way too much. It's hard to express that in typing...I'll tell you about it later...