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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Looks a bit like a Kraken to me, what do you think?
this is just amazing, the colors, the dept, the EVERYTHING... Wauw
Cheers for any help,
James.
Once I have a basic shape, I grab the Smudge Tool. Set to a strength of around 65% (or higher if needed), I start blending edges and shapes together. This is one of the most important steps in creating the realistic nebula. I want have each brushstroke to have a flow to it, like expanding gasses from a exploding star long ago. I will usually at the end of a brushstroke twist/loop my pen to create a sort of “?” shape to it. Varying the brush size is also important to create a more natural feel.
I cannot stress enough the importance of zooming in 200%, 400%, whatever to create very small and random details. This can also be executed by using the eraser tool. Taking a noisy brush (something full of small random patterns or spots), I turn the opacity way down, to something less than 15%. In the brush settings, I crank up the angle jitter to 100%, the size jitter to 25%. Then I start TAPPING out SMALL areas around the nebula. I’m not necessarily trying to delete/erase areas, I’m just trying to vary the density/volume of the nebula.
If I find that the nebula has been over-worked (you have no idea how often I accidently do this) or looks to bland, I’ll take the eraser tool with a grunge brush, crank the opacity up to say 75% and start deleting areas, adjusting the size/angle jitter as necessary. 9 time out of 10 you’ll get more positive results out of erasing things than you do painting them.
I can then go back over all of these areas and using the smudge and blur tools, continue to make/mold the nebula gasses.
If things STILL look bland or just not right, you can use to transform tool to change the nebula around (Distort, Warp, Perspective). You never know what you’ll discover.