I've found that another cool thing you can always do is put in some spacey stars and stuff in the sky to make it look more real, because in reality the atmosphere would have to be very thin for this to be visible, and it looks cooler

@almerakbar

7 жыл бұрын

I'm curious, how should it look like in reality?

Thank you HUGE for this. I used it to composite Saturn into a sunrise photo I took this morning with the Moon and Venus also in the shot. It looks amazing.

@SpinoGamingYT

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Rosengarten saturn is my favorite planet

thx a lot

Thank you this is a fantastic tutorial :)

Thanks John.Very informative vid. keep it up.

This might be a bit pedantic because your effect IS very cool, but a crescent should always be like a bow shooting an arrow at the rising/setting sun. If the planet was rotated +90 degrees it would have been correct.

@NewLayer

10 жыл бұрын

Maybe there's more suns out of the picture :-P

@Ethan-qe7cr

8 жыл бұрын

Do you have an imagination ?

@Pyrolonn

8 жыл бұрын

***** No, that can't be, the second sun would be above the horizon and it wouldn't be twilight.

GREAT TUTORIAL!! PLEASE POST MORE!!

Used this tut on a video composite to include a moon...work out great...Nice tut!!!

Great tutorial. Thanks for the info.

Great tutorial! Thanks!

Great Tut! Thank you!

Very nice Tutorial

Very good! TY!

Yo this is dope!!

Cool, only 3 layers. I must also get used to work more often with Layer Style instead of doing e.g. colour corrections by a separate layer...

Where did you get the picture from?

Nice!

What do I do if the composite is too light?

@NewLayer

4 жыл бұрын

Just adjust the opacity of the "planet" layer in the Layers panel. Or you could add a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layer above the planet, and ALT + Click between the two layers to clip it so it only applies to your planet, and then lower the brightness. You can also apply other adjustment layers like this to change color, saturation, etc. I hope that helps :)

I know this is about 8 years late, but the thumbnail for this video has a glaring error. (I have not watched the video, so if this issue is identified in the video, forgive the redundancy.) The moon/planet in this image is being illuminated by an unseen object to the upper left of the image. But, at the same time, we see that the sun (identified by the sunset/sunrise) is to the lower left. The image is fantastic. Don't get me wrong, but its illogical. I have seen many similar images. Listen, I am no artist and have no real photoshop training, but I have a suggestion: 1. Identify where the light source is going to be in the final image. 2. Rotate the moon/planet image so that its illuminated section points toward the light source. Now, the moon/planet image is partially backlit, so we know the light source is distant and not in the foreground (a "tiny, local sun" you might say). A big error would be to have an image of a body font lit appearing in a day scene or a back lit body in a night scene.

@NewLayer

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct, but also not. What if there are multiple suns and planets in this fantasy and the earth is blocked from the 2nd star by a moon and so the 2nd star is only illuminating the 2nd planet?! LOL

how did you get your planet picture transparent behind?

It is easier to import 2 photos from Lightroom to into Photoshop layers. . Some of you guys always make it harder then needed. The opening part of this tutorial seemed to already had the moon. Start from the beginning of getting your photos into Photoshop. A good start would not to be moving the mouse around at a fast speed.

Every time I try to select, it just selects a big square

Your link does not take you to download source files

The lighting of the planet is absolutely wrong. The sun comes from lower the horizon but the planet is lightened from upper left oO

@0741921

3 жыл бұрын

if you look closely the the gravity is also completely wrong

How do you soften the planet to make the crescent? When I use black paint on the planet it just cuts chunks out and isnt a gradual fade.

@nehalchangat6877

4 жыл бұрын

fredrick guydude turn the hardness of your brush down

Is there any way to do this through a video?

@NewLayer

4 жыл бұрын

You can create a semi transparent PNG graphic in Photoshop using these steps, then simply motion track it into your video footage 👍

@scottt6267

4 жыл бұрын

New Layer thank you! Is there a tutorial on how to motion track it? Haha

@NewLayer

4 жыл бұрын

scottt 626 The most basic method would be manually altering the position using key frames. You can search keyframe basics or something on KZread. Or if it’s a more advanced video scene, then you would need After Effects, in which case you could search something like “motion tracking in After Effects” and you’d find a lot.

Can I do this in CS5?

THANK

But...the light source is coming from the wrong direction

The thing I hate about this, is the light on the moon is coming from the wrong direction lol

Uhm.... The sun is below the planet but northern hemisphere of the planet is lit

@DannyGlasspool

5 жыл бұрын

Binary system maybe?

Once I have pasted a Death Star into an image with gimp...

Ctrl+I did not invert my mask and I did it exactly like you did.

@chiefster11

7 жыл бұрын

Ricky Ray ctrl+shift+I. If you haven't figured it out yet

@tamera4879

7 жыл бұрын

ctrl+shift+I invert selection not Mask

that's no moon! that's a space station!

ThE SuN Is bElOw tHe pLaNeT BuT NoRtHeRn hEmIsPhErE Of tHe pLaNeT Is lIt

That was unnecessary complicated

Una schifezza!