![]() ![]() ![]() Photoshop created a sphere and then wrapped our image around it. In the world of 3d, this is known as spherical mapping. Let Photoshop change the work-space to 3D we will change it back later. One click and you have a planet… kind of. From the top menu select:ģD > New Mesh from Layer > Mesh Preset > Sphere. ![]() So I open the photo into Photoshop and tweak the brightness and levels a little bit. I fancy creating the Star Killer Base form the Force Awakens (watch this space). I may revisit this in the future maybe I will create a cool star wars scene or something. ![]() You may wish to spend some time creating a more detailed texture map. I am only using this one photo because it’s enough to demonstrate the process. How much time you dedicate into detailing the surface image of the planet, will determine how good the planet looks. Ultimately this is the most important part of the whole process. The photo is also very big which is very important for this technique. I grabbed this photo of the Amazon river, it is a great photo to use because it already has clouds and the landscape has lots of rivers and interesting details. There are some limitations so I would advise checking for yourself, but generally, as long as you are not trying to sell their material you should be fine. NASA photos are usually extremely high quality and they have almost no copyright restrictions. NASA is a great resource for free photos. I guess the best way to create a photo-realistic planet is to start with a real photograph. If your version does not have 3D I’m afraid you will be unable to complete this tutorial. I am using Photoshop CC 2018 and this tutorial requires a version of Photoshop which has 3D tools. This technique will use a combination of 3D tools and traditional Photoshop blending modes. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to quickly create a photorealistic planet in Photoshop CC (Updated for CC 2019). ![]()
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