A Work in Progress: Yin yang planet

This guide was made for entry:
Yin yang planet
In Contest:
ps tournament 5 round 2

step 1 of 7

I used picture of NASA as background.
Made it look darker by setting levels, Hue/Saturation. Also duplicated the layer and changed the blend mode to multiply

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step 2 of 7

1. Chose a nice piece from the texture for the moon
2. Applied spherize filter twice
3. Set hue/saturation+levels
4. Made a shadow

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step 3 of 7

Took a piece of the other texture and apllied spherize filter again twice

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step 4 of 7

Used the allowed yin yang image to mask other half away and colored it blue. Painted the colors with photoshop's basic brushes on several layers. I also drew some small rivers and lakes

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step 5 of 7

Added a shadow on the planet and drew some lights with basic brushes and blurred them a bit

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step 6 of 7

Clouds:
Applied Clouds filter a few times.
Erased black areas and blurred it.
Masked it almost transparent and added more shadows on the planet

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step 7 of 7

Atmosphere:
Made as big circle as the planet. Made the fill to 0% and gave it inner and outer glow

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Final result

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