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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wildfire on April 29, 2002, 03:11:26 am

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Wildfire on April 29, 2002, 03:11:26 am

This was my first image.  It started off as a few scribbles in Paint and finished as this...
(http://www.warpstorm.com/cgi-bin/grab.cgi?type=art&id=0012)

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Galemp on April 29, 2002, 10:06:04 am

Sun... too.. big...! Yarrrrgh, my eyes!

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: heretic on April 29, 2002, 10:14:21 am

yeah, overall it needs to be dimmed a bit

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Styxx on April 29, 2002, 10:24:43 am

Looks sorta like the Nexus from Generations...

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: wEvil on April 29, 2002, 10:50:58 am

for reference, do a search on some astonomical sites for a "reflection nebula"

seems to be what youre trying to acheive here.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Stunaep on April 29, 2002, 01:05:02 pm

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Yarrrrgh, my eyes

'nuff said.

BTW, ANOTHER TANG Signature. NOOOO!!!

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Styxx on April 29, 2002, 01:56:45 pm

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Originally posted by Stunaep
BTW, ANOTHER TANG Signature. NOOOO!!!

Hm? What? Where?!? :nervous:

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Corsair on April 29, 2002, 03:35:56 pm

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Originally posted by Styxx
Hm? What? Where?!? :nervous:

:lol:

Wildfire: I like it. The colors and everything are very nice. However, it doesn't look very gaseous. It looks more like a wierdly shape piece of blue glass than a bunch of gas floating in space. Try to make it more wispy and uhhhhhhhh....can't think of the other word I'm looking for. Good try though.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Wildfire on April 29, 2002, 03:46:25 pm

:) Yeah I know, but it was the first image I made and I thought it turned out well for somthing that started as a scribble in Windows paint.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: FSW on April 29, 2002, 03:51:35 pm

Stop complaining guys! How much damage can a computer monitor do? :)
Nice work Wildfire, but it isn't very nebula-ish.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Wildfire on April 29, 2002, 03:55:03 pm

Anyone know some good techniques in PSP or Adobe photoshop for making nebulas.  That one was mostly smudging and lighting effects.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Fineus on April 29, 2002, 04:00:59 pm

Depends really... Flaming Pear plugins for Photoshop work really well, they're what I use to make my nebulas, planets and so on.

You can also use render > clouds or difference clouds and the erraser tool to remove parts of it to shape the nebula (then specify the opacity etc...) thats more complicated and takes practice but can be worth it...

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: IceFire on April 29, 2002, 06:43:37 pm

My suggestion: draw the shape (3 layers, 3 different shades or colors from darkest to brightest).  Then do an overlay and render clouds/difference clouds a few times.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Corsair on April 29, 2002, 07:47:40 pm

Universe plugin!!! :)

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: CP5670 on April 29, 2002, 08:20:08 pm

I use Glitterato for nebulas, Lunarcell for planets and Universe for just about everything else (stars, suns, lensflares, etc.). ;)

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Joey_21 on April 29, 2002, 08:51:59 pm

:yes: I like it.

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: JR2000Z on April 29, 2002, 08:59:45 pm

How did windows paint help? :confused:

Title: Blue nebula image
Post by: Wildfire on April 30, 2002, 03:28:42 am

I was sitting in class getting bored so I opened paint and started scribbleing at random with the spray paint brush.

After a while I looked on the rest of the drive and say Office photo editor.  Hmmm i thought, lets give this a go.  By this boards standards the results were pretty awful but I thought, hey this looks good!

Then I discovered the wonders of PSP and Adobe photo editor and (eventually) this was the result.