Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create a Cinematic Stargate 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 this

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cinematic deep space Stargate from

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scratch create a new document by going

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to file and new make the width 1550

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pixels the height 870 pixels and the

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resolution 150 pixels per inch the mode

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is RGB and 8 bits per channel then click

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OK or press Enter or return

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if your foreground and background colors

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aren't black and white respectively

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press D on your keyboard we'll fill the

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canvas with black by pressing Alt Delete

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on Windows or option delete on a Mac

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make a copy of your background by

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pressing ctrl or command J will place

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the copy into a folder by pressing ctrl

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or command G click the thumbnail of

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layer 1 to make it active click the

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foreground color which opens the color

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picker in the brightness field type in

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15 this will make the foreground color a

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very dark grey then click OK go to

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filter render and clouds

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we're going to stretch the clouds

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horizontally to do this open your

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transform tool by pressing ctrl or

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command T

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at the top you'll see the percentages of

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the transforms width and height go to

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the width and type in 300 then press

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Enter or return since the clouds have a

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width of three hundred percent they're

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extending beyond both sides of your

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document to crop them off press ctrl or

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command a to select the width and the

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height of your document and go to image

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and crop to deselect it press ctrl or

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command D go to filter

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pixelh8 and mezzotint

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choose medium strokes and click okay

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go back to filter blur and radial blur

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slide the amount all the way to the

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right make the blur method zoom and the

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quality best then click OK

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repeat the filter by pressing ctrl or

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command F and then repeat it one more

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time next we'll frame it to the same

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aspect ratio of a widescreen movie go to

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view and make sure rulers and snap are

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checked if they aren't just click on

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them

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open your crop tool and for the width

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type in 2.66 and the height one this is

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the aspect ratio of the original

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CinemaScope movies

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go to the ruler at the top and drag down

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a guideline to the top of the cropped

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area it'll snap to it because we have

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snapped checked if you don't see the

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guideline press ctrl or command H drag

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another guideline to the bottom of the

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cropped area zoom out of your document

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by pressing ctrl or command + the minus

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key on your keyboard

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open your rectangular marquee tool and

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drag a selection from the top left

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corner to the lower right corner of the

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documents guidelines

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make the folder active and click the

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layer mask icon to make a layer mask of

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the selection next to the folder the

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white area of the layer mask will reveal

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the inside of each layer within the

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folder to see your document at a hundred

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percent press ctrl or command one to

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hide the guidelines press ctrl or

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command H

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make the clouds layer active will invert

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it by pressing ctrl or command I

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click the new layer icon to make a new

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layer open your elliptical marquee tool

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of your image press and hold alt or

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option as you drag out an ellipse

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approximately this size and shape

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go to select modify and feather

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feather it 100 pixels and click OK

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pressing ctrl or command shift I

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we'll make the foreground color

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completely black by pressing D on your

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keyboard to revert it to its default

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color fill the selection with black by

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pressing alt or option + delete then

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deselect it

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reduce its opacity to eighty percent

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click the new layer icon to make a new

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layer invert your foreground and

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background colors by pressing X on your

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keyboard or by clicking this icon

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open your brush tool and open your brush

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picker make your brush size 600 pixels

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and the hardness 0% its opacity and flow

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are both a hundred percent hover your

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cursor over the center and left-click

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once

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click the adjustment layer icon and

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click gradient

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open the gradient picker and open your

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list of gradient presets

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I'll choose color harmonies to however

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feel free to experiment with other

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presets when you see this window click

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OK to replace the current gradients with

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the gradients from the preset you just

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chose

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I'll click this one

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make the style radial and I'll drag the

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scale all the way to the right this

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zooms into the center of the gradient

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the higher the scale amount the more it

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zooms in play with this amount to get

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the colors you want you can always

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change it later

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change its blend mode to color

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next we'll add stars make the center

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white glow active and click the new

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layer icon to make a new layer above it

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will fill the empty layer with black and

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since black is the background color

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press ctrl or command + delete

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change the blend mode to screen

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and go to filter noise and add noise

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make the amount thirty percent gaussian

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and monochromatic

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go back to filter blur and Gaussian blur

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make the radius point 5 pixels and click

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OK open levels by pressing ctrl or

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command L

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for input shadows type in 75

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and for input highlights type in 160

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then click OK

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next we'll add subtle motion trails to

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the stars to make them appear to be

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enveloped by the Stargate let's rename

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the star layer stars and reduce its

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opacity to seventy percent press Enter

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or return and make a copy of the stars

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make its opacity a hundred percent go to

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filter blur and radial blur make the

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amount 5 zoom and best then click OK

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this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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thanks for watching