Comments on: Tutorial: Creating a Galaxy in Photoshop

By: Spiral galaxy creation « Outside Context Problem

Spiral galaxy creation « Outside Context Problem — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:05:23 +0000

[...] This was done following the neat tutorial at http://blog.hexagonstar.com/galaxy-tutorial/ [...]

By: Leone

Leone — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:50:04 +0000

really to nice

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:21:38 +0000

Help D: I’m at step 12 and I’ve done all of the transforming yet I’ve ended up with the small bit in the middle of the galaxy then like, loads all around it.

By: sascha

sascha — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:33:23 +0000

@MorituriMax sorry if step 15 was confusing. I’ve edited it now to make it more clear. The word ‘galaxy’ was a bit misleading in that situation so I changed it to ‘image’.
Basically you have your “stars” layer above the “outer galaxy” but you keep the stars layer selected. Then you go into QuickMask mode and paint with black everywhere where you want to have stars remain later (which is around the galaxy but not over it). After that you invert the selection and hit delete to remove the stars, i.e. the ones that are over the galaxy (since you inverted the selection). Hope this makes it clearer. It’s very easy actually, my explanation was just too confusing.

By: MorituriMax

MorituriMax — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:19 +0000

Awesome Tutorial, but step 15 is just throwing me completely off. Part of it is I am not sure where the stars layer was supposed to be when I created it. Right above the outer galaxy layer? at the top of ALL the other layers?

Then when I ctrl-click the outer galaxy layer to make a selection, and go into quick mask mode, the whole image goes red, not just the part where the galaxy is, in other words the whole image turns red with no black around it like in your example.

When you say draw with a black brush where you DO WANT stars, am I not basically drawing over the stars that I DO want, since what is selected is the galaxy itself and not the space in and around it that is empty space.

That is what is really throwing me, step 15 doesn’t cover where the stars layer goes, and the ctrl-click instruction is pretty vague since I am not sure if what I am clicking and what is being selected is the same thing you meant.

Thanks, and I’ll try and muddle through it until/if you have a chance to read this.

By: arctic

arctic — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:20:29 +0000

@Steven fail. lolz.

@sascha: great tut, best looking ps generated galaxy I’ve seen so far -you’ll know exactly what you’re looking at when you see it.
-but it’s still a little bit too stylized I think.
-however, it pointed me in the right direction, and thanks to you, i now have something I can actually work on!

By: sascha

sascha — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:45:43 +0000

^ I leave the last two comments here as an example of how grateful some people are if you offer a piece of work for free!

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:47:18 +0000

plus its fuckin BLACK when you transfer it to the other. Tarmonkey

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:43:38 +0000

Wow, tard. Way to make your fucking star layer UN COPYABLE. douche

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:54:13 +0000

Sascha, this is an awesome tutorial. I used it to create a galaxy for the background in a DVD cover design I’m doing for a Photoshop contest. Thanks.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:42:17 +0000

Can paste the star field in my Galaxy image :S
can anyone help me?

By: Clara

Clara — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:13:28 +0000

Nevermind, got it figured out. Awesome.

By: Clara

Clara — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:12:09 +0000

Agh, I’m stuck on step 15. It just doesn’t look right…at all.

By: analicia

analicia — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:12 +0000

Nevermind my last question–
I figured it out.
Great tutorial!

By: analicia

analicia — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:14:35 +0000

How do you switch to quick mask mode?

By: sascha

sascha — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:42:33 +0000

I have really no idea what could be wrong Martijn. My only guess is that’s it’s indeed locked because of the trial. Sorry can’t be much of help there.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:30 +0000

This is the link of my screenshot:

http://img24.imageshack.us/i/23222238.png/

What have I done wrong???

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:33:45 +0000

Well, I have the trial version of CS4. But that’s full function right? I have the same problem using other distort plugins. The only one available is Lens Correction and Brush strokes is completely disabled. I’ve selected the right layer etc. What’s wrong with my Photoshop CS4

By: sascha

sascha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:12:13 +0000

You mean it’s visible but disabled? Then you might wanna check if you’re on the correct layer and the layer isn’t locked etc.

If the menu choice isn’t there at all I don’t know what went wrong. If you installed CS4 correctly the brush stroke filters should be there.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:01:33 +0000

Well, I have CS4 (trial still, but that shouldn’t make a difference), but I can’t choose Brush Strokes. What have I done wrong?