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how to make a realistic looking moon photograph in photoshop

how to make a realistic looking moon photograph in photoshop
in this tutorial i will show you how to make a very convincing photoshop image i even got a few people to beleive it was real!
 
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Step 1DRAWING THE MOON!

DRAWING THE MOON!
Make new layer. Name it Moon and select Elliptical Marquee Tool. Then make selection of a circle area near the top middle of the page. Size near to 100x100 pixelzz.

Note: To draw a perfect circle, press shift while selecting.

Hit "x" key to change foreground to background color and set foreground color to #F0FAFF. Then fill selection on the current new layer with this color. To draw the moon's surface, select Filter > Artistic > Sponge and adjust the following settings to the image

Note: You can set your own values if you chose diferent sizes. Moreover you should try to set your own values because with this filter you may get different results with the same values. Just try to reapply this filter until you get the proper result. After applying this filter you can Undo [Ctrl+Z] this action and then press [Ctrl+F] to select last used filter once again.
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12 comments
Aug 12, 2009. 4:17 AMchloe294 says:
that is way to confusing how do you stretch it out when i do that it just comes out as a big black box
Jun 9, 2010. 5:00 PMSkillet4ever says:
Omg COMPLETLY agree!
Jun 9, 2010. 4:41 PMSkillet4ever says:
Skillet4ever is: Upset this didnt work and probably have been more sucessful If I got how big to make the canvas
Jun 9, 2010. 4:34 PMSkillet4ever says:
Just did this it turned out weird I dunno what I did wrong I followed all the instructions
Oct 24, 2009. 5:09 AMKELLYB1224 says:
 Hey ,just done this , but added clouds!
Thanks for the tutorial
Aug 13, 2009. 4:09 PMtoffycrisp says:
Hi on my version of photoshop I can't get the fibers tool so how would I create the sea effect without it?
Dec 12, 2008. 1:36 PMgun487 says:
woah NICE
Sep 24, 2008. 8:37 PMimbz says:
cool...nice job!
Jul 18, 2008. 8:07 AMpuffyfluff says:
Amazingly realistic!
Apr 17, 2008. 4:59 PMLinuxH4x0r says:
Wow, great job! Very realistic
Apr 17, 2008. 8:07 AMviolet133 says:
very realistic.
Apr 17, 2008. 5:54 AMpingeee says:
Yeah, very realistic. Good job

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