As requested by Prisma.Starry Sky TutorialIntro: Been putting this off for a long time due to the fact that if you also follow this technique you will find our skies will look pretty much the same as there are hardly enough pictures circulationg the web that supports this technique. Oh well, I will live.
Program: Adobe Photoshop
Difficulty: Intermediate
1. Open up an image of a landscape that, of course, includes a sky. Consider this sky as either light or dark.
LIGHT SKYHere is my version of a
light sky2. Save and open up this image -
stars1. Place over the top of the background and set it to soft light. Click on the layer mask button in your layers palette (
see here) and select a soft brush of about 100 pixels wide to erase away (brush colour - black) the part of the picture you do not wish to see (from the mountains and ground), if you have erased too much, simply switch the brush colour to white to regain what you had wiped out.
3. Duplicate stars1 layer and go up to Filters - Blur - Gaussian Blur and pull the slider over to 3.5, click ok and set the mode to soft light.
4. To create more depth in this image save and open this image -
stars 2. Resize and place above all the layers in your sky image. Now just follow the rest of the steps in two and three.
This is what I came up with:-
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DARK SKYHere is my version of a
dark sky2. Save and open up this image -
stars1. Place over the top of the background and set it to screen. Click on the layer mask button in your layers palette (
see here) and select a soft brush of about 200 pixels wide to erase away (brush colour - black) the part of the picture you do not wish to see (the beach), if you have erased too much, simply switch the brush colour to white to regain what you had wiped out.
3. Duplicate stars1 layer twice and set the modes to soft light.
4. Go back to the first stars1 layer and go up to Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur and pull the slider over to 0.5.
This is what I came up with:-
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