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This lesson demonstrates how to create a planet utilising Photoshop’s Patterns.
Note
All settings are dependant on the size of your image; therefore, when utilising different document dimensions, experiment with the settings.
My tutorial here demonstrates how to create a star field.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards.
Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette, or the Zoom Tool.
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way.
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Open a New document, and set the following attributes. Then extend its grey workspace by dragging out one of its corners.
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Now, from the top menu, choose Layer then choose New Fill Layer then choose Solid Colour. In the subsequent New Layer dialogue box, accept the default settings, and click OK.
From the subsequent Colour Picker dialogue box, left-click over a solid black area. Then click OK. This fills your document with solid black.
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From the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image.
 
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Now, from the toolbar, activate the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
And set the following attributes into its Options bar.
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Press your Shift key - and hold - then drag out a circular marquee. After its application, left-click inside the marquee, and move it to a central position.
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Now, press Ctrl then J. This copies the area inside the selection marquee (the planet), and pastes it as a new layer, in the Layers palette. From the top menu, choose Select then choose Load Selection. Reply OK to the subsequent Load Selection dialogue box, then click OK.
 
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Working on the planet layer, (Layer 1), from the top menu, choose Layer then choose New Fill Layer then choose Pattern. From the subsequent New Layer dialogue
box, accept the default settings, then click OK.
From the subsequent Pattern Fill dialogue box, click open the patterns library, and
double-left-click to set your choice of environmental Pattern. Then click OK.
Tip
Change the pattern’s size by altering the Scale slider.
 
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Now, press and hold your Ctrl key. Then left-click to highlight both the Pattern Fill and circular planet layer. Then right-click the highlighted layers, and choose Merge Layers from the drop-down list.
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Working on the top layer, from the top menu, choose Filter then choose Distort then choose Spherise. Set the following attributes into the Spherise dialogue box, then click OK.
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Now, working on the planet layer, click the Add a layer style (f, or fx icon), found at the foot of the Layers palette. Then from the drop-down list, click Inner Glow.
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From the subsequent Layer Style dialogue box, set the following Inner Glow settings - or experiment. Don’t click OK, yet.
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Now, from the Layer Style’s left-side, click to activate Outer Glow. Then set the following Outer Glow settings - or experiment, then click OK.
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Repeat Chapter 9; and reapply the Spherise filter, retaining its previous settings.
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Then press Ctrl then T, to surround your planet with a vector Transformation Bounding Box, and resize your planet as necessary, by tugging the tiny boxes attached to the bounding box.
Note
Pressing your Shift key as you resize, resizes your planet proportionally.
Press your Enter/Return key to complete the transformation.
 
Notes
Before the layers are flattened, you can adjust the Inner and Outer Glows by
double-left-clicking their respective layer styles. 
This redisplays the Layer Style dialogue box, allowing further editing. Additionally, now is the time to drag your planet onto a star field, if you wish to.
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Now, when you are completely satisfied with your planet’s glow - from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image.
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Press your D key, to set the default Foreground and Background colour swatches.
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Then from the toolbar, activate the Brush Tool.
Brush Tool Tutorials Here - Apply Brushes Here.
And set the following Soft/Round (Basic), brush into the Brush Tool’s Options bar.
Decide where you want the shadow to fall, then apply the Brush Tool, slowly building the shadow’s depth.
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To finish, from the top menu, choose Filter then choose Render then choose Lens Flare. Set your choice of lens flare, then click OK to apply it.
 
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Congratulations, you have created your planet, and it is ready to utilise, or save.
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