Photoshop Tutorial: Starfield with a brush - SS part 1

Excruciating · Last edited by Excruciating on Sat May 19, 2007 3:34 pm; edited 9 times in total

This tutorial will give you a good idea of how to make a starfield, without having those monochrome looking stars.

1.First of all create your image, size doesn't matter (well, it actually does. If your using a small canvas, make sure the brush size is smaller, a bigger canvas an you make the brush a tad larger).

2. press D (set's your colors back to black and white) now fill the image with black (ctrl + backspace).

3. Now you have your space, but no stars. Make a new layer (ctrl + shift + n) and call it stars, pick out one of the preset star brushes and set it to theese settings:

Set your opacity to 50% and size to around 10-15 and start brushing a FEW stars. Then set it to 75% and draw a few more, and last 100%. If you think their to dark, go image->adjustments->levels and move the little white arrow to the left. You should now have something like this:

Last step would be taking out your brush, resseting it, and set it to 1 pixel, 100% opacity and 0 % hardness. Then start painting a few dots for some really bright stars. **Important** Don't over do this!!!!

Now the background for your future space scene is set!
(Note: This is my first tutorial, so bare with me)

C@L

nice..

but why aint you posted it i the tutorials section???

webmaster

Excruciating

Can I be aproved? Ill have another tutorial ready soon, it's about how to make an atmosphere for your planet Very Happy

BaD SectoR · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

nice work bro

AceOfSpades · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 35

Folllowed everything word for word but my dots are way to big and not spreads apart far enuf

Excruciating

I'll take a look at it..

Xerenix · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 1

Alt-Ctrl · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 20

Stupid question maybe. But where do I find the star brushes?

"pick out one of the preset star brushes and set it to theese settings:"

I've seen in the "filter - Brush strokes" area, but I can't find anything there.

Excruciating

If your right click on your layer you'll be able to find the preset star brush if you scroll a bit down.
It's been a long time since I made this tutorial so I'm sure there is a cuople of faulties in it.
I think the number of the star brush is "50".

nic1993 · Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 24

thats soooo helpful for one of my school projects. thanks!