Photoshop Tutorial: Part 1 - How to Create a Powerful Solar Eclipse in Deep Space

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to create the

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solar eclipse in deep space with

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colorful surrounding clouds of gas and

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dust radiating from the solar winds this

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tutorial is in two parts in part one

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will create the basic eclipse and in

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part two will add stars radiating gases

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and dust and make the eclipse glow with

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intense heat create a new document by

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pressing control n on Windows or command

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n on a Mac

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let's name it Eclipse

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make the width 1550 pixels

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the height 870 pixels and the resolution

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150 pixels per inch the color mode is

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RGB and eight bits per channel for the

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background click other if you are

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working on an early version of Photoshop

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and don't see it I'll tell you what to

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do in a moment pick black and click OK

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on both windows

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another way to fill your background with

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black is to first make sure your

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foreground and background colors are

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black and white respectively if they

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aren't press D on your keyboard since

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black is your foreground color press Alt

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Delete on Windows or option delete on a

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Mac

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click the new layer icon to make a new

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layer

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open your elliptical marquee to go near

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the center of your document and press

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and hold alt or option + shift as you

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drag out a circle approximately this

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size fill the selection with any color

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I'll fill it with white and since white

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is my background color I'll press ctrl

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or command + delete deselect it by

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pressing ctrl or command D to center the

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circle on your document first press ctrl

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or command a to select it all

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and click your move tool

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click the align horizontal centers icon

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and the align vertical centers icon

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then deselect it

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reduce the fill 20

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this makes the circle completely

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transparent but it will retain the full

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visibility of any effects that we add to

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it double-click the thumbnail of the

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circle to open its layer style window

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click outer glow the blend mode is

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normal the opacity is a hundred percent

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the noise is zero and the color is white

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the spread is zero and the size is 40

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pixels click inner glow the blend mode

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is normal the opacity is a hundred

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percent and the color is white the

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technique is softer the source is edge

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the choke is zero and the size is 15

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pixels then click OK

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make a composite snapshot of your image

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by pressing ctrl shift alt e on windows

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or command shift option e on a mac

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temporarily hi layer one click the layer

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mask icon to make a layer mask next to

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the composite snapshot

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open your gradient tool and click the

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reflection gradient icon click the

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gradient bar to open the gradient editor

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click the black white gradient box and

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click OK

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go to the middle of the circle and press

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and hold shift as you drag out the

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gradient line to the edge of the outer

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glow and release

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at the top and bottom let's bring back a

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little bit of the glow to do this make

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layer one visible

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and active

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decrease its opacity

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ten percent make the top layer active

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and click the new layer icon to make a

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new layer let's name it lens flare fill

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the empty layer with black

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and change the blend mode to screen

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go to filter render and lens flare

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make the lens type 105 millimeter prime

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and the brightness eighty percent

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drag the lens flare to a position that

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approximates the location of the edge of

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your eclipse then click OK

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the lens flare probably won't be exactly

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what you want it to be so to reposition

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it press the on your keyboard to open

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your move tool and drag it over the glow

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we want to hide the outer areas of the

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lens flare to do this

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click the layer mask icon to make a

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layer mask next to the lens flare invert

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the layer mask by pressing ctrl or

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command I

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open your brush tool

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and brush picker will take care of the

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size in a moment make sure the hardness

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is zero percent and press Enter or

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return make the opacity a hundred

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percent to make your brush bigger or

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smaller press the right or left bracket

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keys on your keyboard

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I'll make the size of my brush 700

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pixels keep in mind the lens flare is

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presently being hidden or masked out by

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the layer mask by brushing white over

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the layer mask it'll reveal the lens

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flare next to it Center your cursor over

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the point where your lens flare is and

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click three or four times to reveal it

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next we'll add small hot spots on the

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other side of the Eclipse

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make the Eclipse active

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and reduce the size of your brush

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reduce its opacity to eighty percent

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and carefully brush over the edge of the

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eclipse in a few spots

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make the top layer active

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and click the new layer icon to make a

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new layer

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ctrl-click or command click on the

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thumbnail of layer 1

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to make a selection of its shape

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go to select

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and transform selection

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click the chain-link this will link the

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width and the height together so

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whatever percentage we type into one

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will be repeated in the other type into

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either field 110% then click the check

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mark at the top to accept the transform

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go to edit

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and Stroke

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for the width type in 30 pixels

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color is white and the location is

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center then click OK

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deselect it

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and go to filter blur and Gaussian blur

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make the radius a hundred pixels

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okay in part two we'll complete our

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solar eclipse with stars radiating

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clouds of gases and dust and illuminate

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the rim with intense heat this is Marty

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from Blue Lightning TV thanks for

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watching