Photoshop makes a dream Blue crescent moon

The moon looks very simple, but not easy to make. Because not only the moon, but also need to use a cloud background to foil the moon, local also need to add some small starlight and spot to increase the illusion of effect.

Final effect

1, a new 1000 * 750 pixels, resolution of 72 of the canvas, background filled with dark blue: #00142D.

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2, create a new group, named "Moon", and then create a new layer in the group.

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3, press CTRL + R to bring up the ruler, and then pull the two groups of intersecting guides, as shown below.

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4, select the Elliptical Marquee tool, with the first intersection as the starting point, hold down the SHIFT key to pull a positive circle selection, the process as shown 4,5.

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5. Use the Paint bucket tool to fill the selection with a bright color, and cancel the selection after the following figure.

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6, with the second intersection as the starting point, hold down the SHIFT key to pull out a slightly smaller round selection, such as Figure 7,8.

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7, press DELETE key Delete, cancel the selection after the preliminary meniscus effect.

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8, locked layer pixel area, the moon filled with the same color background, the following figure.

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9, double-click the picture layer of the moon thumbnail load layers, set the outer glow, inner glow, parameters and effects of the following figure.

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10. Select Menu: layer > Layer style > Create layer so that the outer and inner glow effects are turned into layers, in which the inner glow is the clipping mask state.

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11, to add layer mask to the light-emitting layer, with the lower transparency of the soft side of the black brush to the moon at both ends of the transition smear out, the following figure.

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12, to the outer light-emitting layer layer mask, with a black brush to the top of the transition to paint, the following figure.

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13. Create a new layer above the moon layer and fill it with blue: #1A599D, as shown below.

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14. Create a new layer on the top of the group, press CTRL + ALT + G to make a clipping mask, and use a pen to tick the selection shown in the following figure, feather 15 pixels and then fill the dark blue: #2D3032.

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