The structures tube, cube and sphere geometry with mental ray materials. The "flying saucers" are made from a lathed line. Terrain and atmosphere along with planets created and textured with VUE 9.5. Image rendered with 3DS Max mental ray render.
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Finished 3D render. This post processed with CS5.
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Using Photoshop I duplicated original and adjusted the Shadow/Highlighting, set layer blend to multiply and lowered opacity.
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Made a copy of original placed it at top of stack. Used Filter>Stylize>Find Edges, reduced opacity and set layer blend to darker color.
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Created an adjustment layer for levels set it's blend to darker color and lowered opacity.
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Foreground source was masked. Layer duplicated and find edges filter applied, lowered opacity and blend set at multiply.