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In this tutorial Ill show you how to create a shiny planet icon
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Step 1Create a new document which is 1000 pixels wide and 500
pixels high at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch, with a name of
"Home."
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Step 2Well be using some texture for our planet. You can get the
diffuse texture from planetpixelemporium.com. Download the "color
map" image from the site and place it as a new layer into your
document. Rename this layer as "Earth."
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Step 3Now go to 3D > New Shape From Layer > Sphere. This
will wrap the layer around a sphere and this is going to be the
base layer of our planet illustration.
Step 4The "Earth" layer is now a 3D layer and a cube icon is
displayed in the Layers Palette. You can interact with a 3D model
in a 3D layer in Photoshop. You can rotate and move the model or
change the position of the camera in 3D space using the 3D tools in
the Toolbox.
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Step 5Grab the 3D Rotation Tool, click on the canvas, hold and
drag to rotate the sphere and adjust it as you wish. Holding down
the Alt or Shift keys will restrict the rotation axis.
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Step 6The edges of the sphere look aliased at the moment. First
were going to fix it. Go to the Layers palette and double-click the
little cube icon in the "Earth" layer to bring up the 3D Palette.
Here you can make several adjustments to the 3D layer. Make sure
the "Scene" is selected in the upper list and set Anti-Alias to
Best. This will fix the edges.
Step 7Now click on the Global Ambient Color box and set the
color to R:100, G:100, B:100 and hit OK. This will change the
ambient color to a brighter one.
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Step 8Well now add a bump map to our planet. First download the
"bump map" from planetpixelemporium.com and save the image to your
desktop. Now go to the 3D Palette. Go to Sphere_Material and click
the Edit the Bump Texture button and chose Load Texture. Select the
file you have just downloaded. The "earthbump1k. jpg" file is a
grayscale file and the lighter areas in this image will be bumped
in our 3D sphere. We also want our planet to be glossy, so set the
Glossiness to 100%.
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Step 9In the 3D Palette youll see that there are three lights.
These are the default Photoshop scene lights. Now well change their
types, colors and positions. First select the "Infinite Light 1"
and change its Color to R:150, G:150, and B:150. Now select the
"Infinite Light 2" and set its type to Point so that we can change
its position. Change its Color to r:180, G:180, and B:180. You can
change the position of the light in the 3D scene using the Slide
the Light and Drag the Light Tools in the 3D Palette. Position the
gloss effect on the sphere using these tools. Now select "Infinite
Light 3," set its type to Point as well and set its Color to R:130,
G:130, and B:130.
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Step 10"Infinite Light 3" is placed somewhere under the sphere.
Since were going to put the sphere on a surface and add some drop
shadow later on, we just dont want any lights below it. So place
the light above the sphere using the Slide and Drag Tools.
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Step 11Now well make the clouds around the planet. Go to the
Layers Palette, duplicate the "Earth" layer and name it "Clouds."
Open the 3D properties panel for the "Clouds" layer. Select
Sphere_Material in the upper list. Click the Edit the Diffuse
Texture button and select Remove Texture. This will unload the
existing texture map, and the Diffuse Color will determine how it
is going to look. Set the Diffuse Color to white.
Click the Edit the Bump Texture button and choose Remove Texture
to unload the bump map. Now we have a white sphere. Well use
another texture map for the clouds. Actually well use the white
color of the Diffuse for the clouds and this texture map for the
opacity. You can download the "clouds transparency" image from
planetpixelemporium.com. Click the Edit the Opacity Texture button
and choose Load Texture. Locate the "earthcloudmaptrans.jpg" file
you have just downloaded. The opacity texture made some parts of
the sphere invisible, but obviously the wrong parts. Click the Edit
the Opacity Texture button again and this time choose Open Texture.
This will open the texture in a new document window. Go to Image
> Adjustments > Invert. Save and close the document. Go back
to the "Home.PSD" document, youll see the opacity map is updated.
The weather seems to be too cloudy, because we can see the clouds
that are on the other side through the transparent areas. Making
the material one sided will fix that problem. Uncheck Two Sided. To
make the clouds a little bit whiter, set Ambient and Specular
colors to white. You can get the 3D Rotate Tool from the Toolbox
and adjust the orientation of the clouds if you want.
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Step 12To make the clouds pop out a little more set the Color of
the three light to white.
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Apply a Drop Shadow Layer Style to the "Clouds" layer and use
these settings: Blend Mode set to Multiply, Color set to black,
Opacity set at 75%, Distance set to 1px and Size set to 3px.
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Step 14
Now we have our planet done. Since were going to merge our two
3D layers before we move on, this might be your last chance to
change the rotation of the earth and the clouds. Drag one
horizontal and one vertical Guide and snap them to the center of
the earth. Go to the Layers Palette, select both the "Earth" and
"Clouds" layers, merge them by going to Layer > Merge Layers.
Name the merged layer "Earth". Now grab the Elliptical Marque Tool,
Hold Alt + Shift and make a circular selection starting from the
center of the earth where the two guides intersect. Make a
selection as shown below, which is about one pixel smaller than the
earth. Go to Select > Inverse and hit Delete to clear. This will
clear the drop shadow of the clouds and make the edges smoother.
Hit Command + D to deselect.
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Step 15Use the Move Tool to move the earth up to make room for
the shadow and the reflection. Apply an Inner Shadow layer style
using these settings: Blend Mode set to Multiply, Color set to
black, Opacity set at 100%, Angle set to -90 degrees, Distance set
to 25px and Size set to 46px. This will make the bottom part
darker.
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Create a new layer named "Shadow" above the "Background" layer.
Grab the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a selection as shown in
the image below. Fill the selection with black and deselect. Go to
Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and apply with a Radius of 7px.
Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur, set the Angle to 0 and
Distance to 150 px and apply.
Step 17Duplicate the "Shadow" layer. Hit Command + T, set both
the Vertical and Horizontal Scale to 60% and apply. This will make
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Step 18Go to the "Earth" layer in the Layers Palette, duplicate
it and name it "Reflection." Delete the Inner Shadow layer style by
dragging the Effects to the Trash. Go to Edit > Transform >
Flip Vertical to mirror the image. Grab the "Reflection" layer
below the "Shadow" layer and position it as shown below.
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Step 19Go to the Layers Palette and add a Layer Mask to the
"Reflection" layer. Get the Gradient Tool, open the Gradient picker
and select Black, White. Draw a gradient on the layer mask as shown
below. This will make the reflection fade.
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ConclusionIn the Layers Palette click on the "Reflection" Layer
Thumbnail to select the layer itself. Go to Filter > Blur >
Gaussian Blur and apply with a Radius of 2 pixels. Set the Layer
Opacity at 75%. Grab the Gradient Tool and fill the "Background"
layer with a light blue to white gradient. Well thats it! I hope
you enjoyed and learn something new about the 3D possibilities of
Photoshop!
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