READ THIS FIRST!

Ok, since right now deviantART is having some sort of glitch that messes up the ratios in Internet Explorer, im gonna give you a mini-tutorial on how to fix that

Hit the F11 key TWICE.
This seems to work for a lot of people, myself included.

I was about to hold this one until dA fixed the proportion problem, but i figured: what the hell?


Ok, so over the ages, i noticed that if there is one thing that space artists (especially newcomers) struggle with, then it has to be planet textures. Lots of them just cant get their planets to look good, cant find good textures, or simply dont have 3d studio max

So i decided to throw everyone a bone, and i made a tutorial on how to make a somewhat realistic-looking planet using only photoshop. Be adviced that you need to have some basic photoshop knowledge to follow this, and if not, i suggest you spend 50 dollars on the adobe photoshop book, or read the help files that photoshop came with)

I made a JPEG tutorial because:

1) I'ts annoying when you have to change from photoshop to your browser, and vice-versa. With Jpegs you have everything neat in photoshop

2) I didnt feel like writing HTML

If you have any questions, please dont hesitate to drop me a line.