STEP 5: GIVING FINAL TOUCH
Now create a new layer just below the earth layer but above the ellipse 1 layer. Rename that layer as “Streak”. Change the color of you foreground color to #b4d3ff. Then select brush tool. Decrease the hardness to 0% and increase the radius to 500 pixels.
Now press and hold ctrl/cmd and click on the layer thumbnail of the ellipse 1 layer as we did earlier. Now click at the horizon of the earth.
I need my light streak to be more brighter. To do this simply duplicate your “ellipse 1” layer by pressing ctrl+J/cmd+J. Then right click on that and then select clear layer style.
Then I am going to add outer glow to this layer. Simply click on the add layer style and then click on outer glow. Change the blend mode to linear dodge. Increase the opacity to 100%. Increase the spread to 29% and size to 158p pixels. Increase the range to 75%.
Change the color to #3496ff.
Now press ctrl+T/cmd+T to to enter to free transform mode. Transform your copied layer just as shown below.
Now create a new layer at the top of the layer palette. Rename that layer as “sun”. Once again press and hold ctrl/cmd key and then click on the layer thumbnail of ellipse 1. Press ctrl+shift+I/cmd+shift+I to invert the selection. Make white as your foreground color and then select brush. Decrease the hardness of the brush to 0% and increase the size to 200 pixels. With that brush selected, make a dot at the brighter area of the earth.
Now reduce the brush size to 15 pixels. Create a new layer at the top of the layer palette and rename that as “line”. Press and hold shift and the draw a horizontal line as shown below.
Now go to filter>blur>motion blur and increase the distance to 500 pixels.
Grab the move tool and place that line at the intersection of sun and earth as shown below.
Now change the foreground color to #3571cb.
Its time to render some clouds. Make a new layer and rename that as cloud. Go to filter>render>clouds.
Now change the mode to overlay. Once again press and hold ctrl/cmd and then click on the layer thumbnail of the “ellipse 1” layer. Now press ctrl+shift+I/cmd+shift+I to invert the selection. Make sure that your “cloud” layer is active. Now add a vector mask to “cloud” layer.
Now go to filter>blur>radial blur. Change the type to zoom and and change the quality to best. Set the amount between 400-60%. Press OK.
Now you are done. You can play around more to get more realistic image like adding another planet, adding lens flare etc.
And finally you are done here. Read my next tutorial where I will be discussing Creating a Surreal Howling Wolf with Moon in Photoshop. Thank you for reading this article. Hopefully we’ll meet again.
