Nope, still doesn't.
Compare the planet from tutorial to the first planet in his original image.
That one has actual detailed continents which complex coloring that are impossible to make with a couple of buttons in photoshop.

It doesn't surprise me that mooman doesn't have his .psd saved though...;)
If he actually did draw every single continent there by hand he would valued this work enough to save .psd file.

Bah, I'm gonna defend moo here.

He said himself you can make it yourself with brushes, which you could make a continent with. I asume he used the picture to finish the tutorial faster... Hey mooman any chance you can make a new "continent" filled planet with a psd, I'd bet on mooman but all I have is a measly 3k.

that wasn't the origional bet... but i still can. because i took enough time to turn it into a pattern. i used grunge brushes, abstract brushes and a shit load of filters.



i can send you the pattern if you want (its only a very small portion of the planet)

Ok, that looks legit enough.

My mistake ;)
Sending tc.

PS: The planet looks realistic apart from the misshapen misplaced shadow which doesn't correspond to alleged light source.

nvm missed ur last post. tyty ;)

still a little too blurry for me, man. you're also getting the shading wrong. the blue and the black give it almost a tennis ball-like shadow. it should be half shadow, half light, with a little transition between the two

is that more along the lines of what ur thinking?
but i'd also like to point out that the sun is not directly above the planet

i know that about the sun, but what i mean is, the shadow doesn't reach all the way across in the first one, and now it does, but it isn't inline with the sun. here's what i mean

also, the land masses look better, but they look like they're dissolving into the water. make the lines clearer, and maybe add some atmosphere to it (this could get pretty hard). dont make it all green either. give it some other terrain, too. example:

YAY for photoshop tutorials!
went through the whole planet making phase aswell when i started out, then i got bored...
heres a piece a friend of mine worked on, once he had been through the tutorials on it...
pretty much the same idea that u used, just more in depth
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e8...y-587x1024.jpg
made using photoshop and some other shit called terragen or something, cant remember

the main thing with yours, is use less blurry effects, work bigger, and work in more detail.
i find google images - rusted metal gives good results

i agree with miko for the shadowing but the glow around the planet itself (while is a nice touch : P) is a bit overthetop. while it is good you put a glow it is alot bigger then it should be, look at the photo miko placed in his last entry, the planet does have a glow but it is much more subtle... other then that your doing great keep it up ^.^