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Three days left before my holday starts... I am almost ashamed to say that about three working day went to create the following pic
http://www.surfnet.fi/gnurf/xara/HOLIDAY.jpg
The entire image is made in Xara except the "island" in the spaceship. The island I made in Vue d'Esprit. The whole picture started out as a test to se if I could import an vue-picture into xara and use a transparency mask. It worked quite well, and after that I got a little carried away and wanted to create a nice looking planet... and real planet has to have moons... and to get the sun to look real you need a lens flare [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] ...and so on and so on
http://www.surfnet.fi/gnurf/xara/HOLIDAY_zoom.jpg
-Paul
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Three days left before my holday starts... I am almost ashamed to say that about three working day went to create the following pic
http://www.surfnet.fi/gnurf/xara/HOLIDAY.jpg
The entire image is made in Xara except the "island" in the spaceship. The island I made in Vue d'Esprit. The whole picture started out as a test to se if I could import an vue-picture into xara and use a transparency mask. It worked quite well, and after that I got a little carried away and wanted to create a nice looking planet... and real planet has to have moons... and to get the sun to look real you need a lens flare [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] ...and so on and so on
http://www.surfnet.fi/gnurf/xara/HOLIDAY_zoom.jpg
-Paul
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Cool image. Have a great holiday.
Gary [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]
Gary Priester
Moderator Person
Be It Every So Humble...
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How do you have made the planet??????? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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Very nice Image. Have a great holiday!
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To create the big planet with swirling clouds I used three circles in different sizes, filled with fractal clouds which I twisted a bit. I placed the biggest circle under and the smallest on top. I also played around with the transparencies of the smaller circles (about 80%-90% transparency, if I remember correctly). After that I applied a 25 step blend between the circles. The transparency of the circles makes the clouds softer. The idea of blending fractal filled circles I originally got from one of Klaus Nordby's images of a planet (can be found at Xara Files Gallery), but I simplified mine to only three circles.
The atmosphere is a blend of two circles and the shadow side of the planet is also a blend of two circles.
The moons are made in a similar matter except using a "cloud blend" I used only one fractal cloud filled circle for the surface.
-Paul
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Thanks [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]))) !!!!
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I love the image! nice work & thinks for posting the how too. All that & helpful too?
Ww
