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Make a Realistic Planet Using Hurricane Katrina

This tutorial will show you how to make a planet using a flat map image.

1. Find an image of earth on the internet and save it to your hard drive. I used the NASA website Visible Earth to find mine.

2. Now open your earth image and if the image is locked, right click on the lock in your layers palette and click on "Duplicate Layer" to get an unlocked image to work with like the image below.

3. Select the "Elliptical Marquee Tool" and select the section you want to use. Now select Edit > Cut and then select Edit > Paste which will create a new layer. Now you can delete the two layers highlighted in red like the image below and work with Layer 1.

4. Now you want to create a new layer by clicking on Layer > New > Layer, set your color palette foreground color to black and click on Edit > Fill to make your new layer all black.

5. Click on the layer which has your planet and click on Filter > Distort > Spherize and set the amount to 100% for this tutorial. You won't see the image at all at this point.

6. Now click on layer 2, which you filled with black and drag it down below layer 1 which has your planet. Your image should look like the one below now.

Last update: 2007-05-24 23:10
Author: Gary Logsdon
Revision: 1.0

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