Photoshop makes "cosmic sky" effect

This example is the use of Photoshop 6.0来 freehand to create a realistic picture of the sky, through the practice of this example, you will appreciate the powerful features of Photoshop 6.0. The authoring steps are as follows:

1, new file: RGB color mode, the background white; new Layer1, foreground color dark blue, background color black, with oval tool to draw a rounded area after filling, filter (filter)-->render (render)-->clouds (cloud). As shown in the figure:

Create a blue sky and white cloud

2, Ctrl+t, the graphic flattening; filter (filter)-->distort (twisted)-->twirl (spin

Twist), set its rotation angle angle as 280,ctrl+d. As shown in the figure:

Making nebula Patterns

3, the new Layer2, and moved to the Layer1, filled with dark blue to get the dark blue cosmic background. Press the CTRL key while clicking Layer1,select (select)-->feather (feather) to set the feather value to 20. As shown in the figure:

Boundary Feather

4, select (select)-->inverse (optional), Delete, according to the actual situation more than a few times to achieve the best results. Finally adjusts the image brightness image (image)-->adjust (-->brightness/contrast) (Brightness/contrast) (the input value is: 0, 1.63, 230). As shown in the figure:

Color scale adjustment of nebula image

5, merged Layer1 each layer2,layer-->flatter Image; set the foreground color to white, with the pen tool in the background messy dotted some stars, as shown in the picture:

Finish the sky background

6, set the foreground color for sky-blue, with the text tool to write text, magic wand Select each text, with the gradient tool for each text for a blue-white gradient. As shown in the figure: