Holiday on my mind

[gnurf]

Three days left before my holday starts... I am almost ashamed to say that about three working day went to create the following pic



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



-Paul

[gnurf]

Three days left before my holday starts... I am almost ashamed to say that about three working day went to create the following pic



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



-Paul

[gwpriester]

Cool image. Have a great holiday.

Gary [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Every So Humble...

[spyro70]

How do you have made the planet??????? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

[randyrives]

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Very nice Image. Have a great holiday!

[gnurf]

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

[spyro70]

Thanks [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]))) !!!!

[wALDO sLACK]

I love the image! nice work & thinks for posting the how too. All that & helpful too?

Ww