Create A New Earth

Description: With just a few short and easy techniques, i'll show you how to create your own new planet earth.

	Start a new document 600x600. Set the foreground and background to Blue and White. Then Go to Filter->Render->Clouds
	Then go to Filter->Sketch->Note Paper. Image Balance: 35 Graininess: 0 Relief: 25 You can play around with the image balance to get the shapes of your continents.
	Use the circular marquee tool and make a round selection as big as you can on the image. Hold down shift while making the selection ensures you get a perfect circle.
	Then go to Filter->Distort->Spherize Amount: 100% Then Edit->Copy
	Then CTRL+N to create a new document. The newly created document size should be left as is because photoshop will use the size of the copied image, else, just create a new document about 650x650. Then in the new document, go to Edit->Paste to paste the image onto the new document. You should now have a globe on white background. Add a 1 pixel stroke to the image. If you want to learn how to create stars, See below.
Description: Some people have asked how I made the stars background in some of the planets tutorials, so this tutorial, i'll show a simple way to create stars. Im not claiming this technique will create anything realistic, just something simple that looks like stars. Start a new document whatever size you want - Create a new layer and fill it with black. - Then go to Filter->Noise->Add Noise. Set: Amount: 20Distribution: Gaussian Monochromatic: Checked Note: The more "Amount" you set, the more stars where will be Duplicate this layer and set it to: Overlay. Thats it. A little bit of modification, I came up with this. DOWNLOAD PSD FILE To see the extras I did. Thats it.

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