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Help with recreating image


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Hi, I'm relatively new to photoshop but I'm trying to recreate a similar image to the one below. Basically our web designers created this background image and then lost the files. As they've now signed off on the job (with a placeholder background image), I'm trying to recreate the old one below.

From my observation, I think theres a layer of stars at the back, followed by a layer of nebula texture, and then the planet on top of that. I've created something vaguely similar with images that I've found, but I'm having trouble getting the nice old grainey feel. I'm using CS6, but the "add noise" filter doesn't seem to create the same effect. I've also just purchased OnOne Perfect Photo Suite 7, and I'm currently getting to know my way around those filters. Are these considered a good suite of plugins?

I'm also having a bit of trouble getting the colour right... think that the background stars are a different colour to the nebula layer, does that sound right? And how woulld I go about identifying the exact brown/orange colour? Also the dark shading looks great I think and I'm struggling to recreate this as well.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how to recreate this background image i'd be really grateful!

I'm using a MacPro running 0SX 10.6.8, with PhotoShop CS 6 & OnOne Perfect Photo Suite 7.

Thanks in advance!!!

Cropped Moon Zero image.jpg
 
just make a black and white adjustment layer on top of what you already have, and then place a layer filled with the orange like colour on top with the blending mode set to either soft light or colour
hope this helps
 
Hi, thanks for your reply. My problem is more to do with adding the dark grainey texture to the real space images I have sourced so it has the vintage illustration look that the above image has. [FONT=adobe-clean, Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif]It looks more like something from a 60s/70s comic or sci fi album cover design rather than a real image.

Another reference for the effect I'm trying to achieve is this:

[/FONT]Flying Lotus.jpeg
 
You can pixelate the image, or use a "grain" photo filter. Also over sharpineg with a high pass filter, and changing your blending mode
 
"...My problem is more to do with adding the dark grainy texture to the real space images..."

A good way to add texture is to build up a library of textures, then select an appropriate one, run it through a high pass filter, and put the result on a new layer set to overlay or soft light mode. I have scanned quite a few blank negatives, slides and prints just for their textures.

HTH,

Tom M
 
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