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Making the bands on Saturn by oval selections.
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Repeating a lot...you get the idea.
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Bands finally done.
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Shading w/ dodge & burn.
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Rings made the same way as the bands.
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Saturn & rings combined.
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Star field made by using Greg Martin's tut...it was a lot of fun, and I commend his expertise.
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Starting the hull of the ship with a simple oval selection filled, dodged & burned.
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The rocket tubes are simple line and oval with a color fill.
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The completed hull, ,with rocket tubes and windows added. A few oval selections dodged & burned on the hull to establish more dimensionality.
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Wing made by combining different oval selections and gradient fill.
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Tail fin made the same way as the wing.
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Completed wings with fuel tanks made from oval selections dodged & burned. Now the ship is complete.
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Starting to create the rocket exhaust without airbrushing. 3 identical selections filled with different colors. These will be manipulated as you'll see.
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Outer color blurred, second color scaled to fit in image. It also will be blurred, but not as much.
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Inner color scaled and will be added to interior of rocket exhaust pic.
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All selections blended to make a believable rocket flame.
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The ship looked a bit washed out, so I tweaked it up a bit.
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Ship & exhaust trail blended.
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The final composition.
Final result
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