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Create a Detailed Meteorite and Surrounding Space Environment in Photoshop

By James QuFebruary 7, 20114 Mins Read
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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Detailed Meteorite and Surrounding Space Environment in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorials and some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (Click to Enlarge)

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Ok Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stock:

Rock

Debris Brush

Fire Explosion Brush

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1400px * 900px with black background. Create a new layer and use the fire explosion brush, paint some nebula pattern as shown below:

(Hint: do not set the brush opacity and flow to be too high, try set them both at around 20%. Use Soft Eraser to remove part s of the cloud to create depth)

Create a new layer and draw a black circle as shown below:

Step 2

Load the rock image into Photoshop, grab the Quick Selection Tool from the toolbox, set the brush tip to be around 35px (hard brush):

Select one rock piece from the image with Quick Selection Tool:

Paste your selection to the base, desaturate it as we don’t need the colour:

Go back to the rock stock photo, grab a few more different pieces and paste them on the base, until them form the following shape: (desaturate while pasting them)

Make the base layer invisible, and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

Now merge those rock layers together, duplicate the merged layer a few times, reduce their size and scatter them around the canvas, as shown below:

Then use the debris brush you downloaded, paint some scattering effect around the meteorite (make sure you adjust the flow and opacity to be both around 40% before you start painting)

Also make sure you paint some debris to the smaller meteorite on the side:

Use the fire explosion brush, paint some cloud effect around the meteorite as shown below:

Step 4

I decided to add some motion blur effect into the image to make it more dynamic. So let’s create a new layer and paint with the debris brush as shown below:

Apply the following Motion Blur settings to it:

and you will have the following effect:

Go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen and sharpen this image a bit:

and you will see parts of the image become brighter:

Reduce the layer opacity to around 50%, and you will have the following effect:

Duplicate this layer a a few times, and scatter them around the image, adjust the size and opacity of them accordingly:

Step 5

We’re almost done. For some final touchups, I added some lighting effect with a soft round, white brush to the position shown below (on a new layer):

Warp this light to fit the top left corner of the meteorite:

and you will have the following effect:

Add the following Curves Adjustment layer on top:

and you will have the following effect:

You can add more colour to the image, and dodge/burn the following areas to increase the image depth:

I also made some slight colour changes and here is the final effect: (click to enlarge)

That’s all for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful :) Till next time, have a great day!

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James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience, mastering the software since its 5.0 version. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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4 Comments

  1. white on February 9, 2011 4:16 PM

    awesome.

  2. Radius on February 11, 2011 3:28 PM

    very cool!!!! useful tips!

  3. xxx on February 12, 2011 1:00 AM

    awesome…!!!!!!

  4. rajasegar on February 15, 2011 2:02 PM

    Great tutorial and techniques well explained!
    Thanks for sharing…
    Featured in Tutorials of the Week in http://www.hangaroundtheweb.com

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