Astronaut Space Scene
For this project I took a desert scene and turned it into an astronaut landing on another planet. I started by taking a few pictures of desert scenes and mountains and added them together, I made it a little more orange so that it seemed like it was more of a different planet. I made a few stars and I added some that I used in another Photoshop picture I made. Then I added bright colors to the stars and did filter> Render> Different Clouds and I turned down the opacity. I then added colorful lines in the sky using the MSNBC Style Effect tutorial and putting down the opacity. I then created the planets by using the MSNBC Style Effect but putting waves in it like in the Jupiter tutorial, then I did Filter> Distort> Spherize, then i added a few affects so that it looked more 3D, like outer glow inner shadow and color overlay. Then I created the sun using a white brush and the outer glow effect. Finally, I added the astronaut and the flag, because I felt like the ground needed something more, so i took a picture from the moon landing and cropped it so it was only the flag and astronaut then I added effects to make them seem as if they were on the planet instead of the moon. I added a shadow to the flag and astronaut by copying them, flipping them, and turning them black with the opacity down. Oh and as an extra I added a rock flying around one of the planets.