Building Planets: Saturn

1. Create a new document

• 1000 pixels wide by 1000 pixels high
• RGB
• 72 PPI
• white

2. Hit the D key on your keyboard to select the default colors. Use the Paint bucket fill tool to fill the background black.

3. Insert a new layer by clicking Layer => New => Layer (Layer 1) Fill that layer with Black also. Insert a new layer again (layer 2) and do not fill this one.

4. Select the elliptical marquee. Set it to

• style = fixed size
• width = 400 px
• Height = 400 px

Draw an elliptical marquee on Layer 2with these settings in the center or nearly so on your canvas.

5. Select your brush tool, set at 25% opacity, and the  59 speckle brush and resize it to 100.   Select the color as Light gray; Hex #CCCCCC.

On Layer 2 paint 5 nearly horizontal strokes starting at the left side of the marquee, through the marquee to the far right side. Note that only paint will show up within the marquee.

6. Insert a new Layer (Layer 3) and using the same brush settings, with a darker Grey, hex #999999 paint 4 nearly horizontal strokes across and beyond the marquee.

7.  Insert a new Layer (Layer 4). Using the same brush settings, with a darker Grey, hex #666666 paint 4 nearly horizontal strokes across and beyond the marquee.

8. Turn the eye off on the background layer. Merger visible by clicking Layer=>Merge Visible.

9. Invert the selection by clicking Select=>inverse. Hit your backspace key. Rename this layer planet.

10. Hold your control key down and click on the planet Layer. Use the following filters.

• Filter => Noise => Add noise
  • 25%
  • Uniform
  • Monochromatic
• Filter=>Brush Strokes => Spatter
  • radius = 15
  • smoothness = 5
• Filter=>Blur=>Motion Blur
  • 0 degrees
  • distance = 15
     

11. Create a new layer. Select your gradient tool. Hit your D key followed by your X key to set white as foreground color and black as background. Using the White to black radial gradient, draw a gradient from on side to the other at 50% opacity fill. Set this layer to Overlay mode.

12. Click on the planet layer and Add a new layer. Fill this layer with a shade of purple (hex # 990099) or blue (hex #330099) and set the mode to color, opacity 100%

13. Deselect all by clicking select => deselect. Click on the top layer and insert a new layer. Select the gradient tool, set to linear, 100 Opacity. Select the preset gradient that is a rainbow on a transparent background. Draw a gradient from top to bottom, about 200 pixels high total, holding the shift key to make it straight.

14. Click Filter=> distort => Polar coordinates.

• Select Rectangular to polar.

15. Using the move tool with bounding boxes checked, resize the ring so that it is much wider then the planet. Shorten the height of the ring up so that it appears to be in one plane around the planet.

Continue adjusting the image using the bounding boxes by rotating the ring so it is on a slant. Set the rainbow ring layer to 70% opacity.

16. Hold your control key down and click on the planet layer. This will select your planet. choose your eraser tool with a large hard edged eraser. Erase the top part of the ring that goes over the planet.

16. Click back on the planet and use the move tool to rotate the planet to the same plane as the rings.

17. Turn on your background layer

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