What if there were white holes in space and all dark matter got sucked up into them? Played with spheres, layers, star brushes and effects this afternoon - just to give my brain a little break from everything else. =) Just for effect, adding the theme from the movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVD5ND0DrI
@marlboromaam :) did you view any good tutorials to figure out how to do this? Is it all PS stuff and not a camera image to begin with? It looks like worlds colliding... maybe I’ve been watching too much Star Trek... almost through watching the Voyager series from beginning to end... am in the last season.
@kvphoto LOL! I saved some bad moon shots I took with my phone back around the first of the month. Had this one that magnified the dirt on my window - at least I think it's the dirt on the outside of my window. ??? Ha ha! I thought I might do something interesting with it later on. Then I used the spherize filter that's part of Pixel Bender in Photoshop to add the large and smaller spheres. I added another layer to add some different stars on the right with the star brushes and blurred them a bit with the blur tool. Last I created a layer for the gassy trails with 50 percent opacity and used the eraser where I wanted to take them out. Does any of this make sense? If not, I will seriously try to clarify. =) No tutorials were viewed. I used to use Photoshop a lot when I was a graphic designer many moons ago. I know a few tricks, but you can fit those on the head of a pin.
@marlboromaam I’ve been watching them on Netflix... I’ve also got CBS All Access (a misnomer really... some shows there are so many missing epics ones) and the new season 3 of Discovery just started... nice!
@kvphoto Nice! Not channels I can get with my rabbit ears. LOL! I have the original series on DVD and the TOS movies. Waiting for price reductions on the rest. =)
@marlboromaam Yes... to some of it... I’ve seen you mention Pixel Blender before... is it something you add on to PS? Cool that you were a graphic designer... my first career was in photography and graphics... but all in analog days... we made masks out of Kodalith film, shot multiple images and colors onto one piece of pin registered film to create composites... mostly for ad agencies. I did the darkroom part of it... I might have 15-20 exposures to create one composite and any slight thing... like dust, or the registration could be slightly off and I’d have to start over. Challenging but fun and interesting. Oh... and I have plenty of bad moon shots LOL!
@kvphoto KV, you can download Pixel Bender for the older versions of Photoshop. Not the newer versions though. I have CS5 Extended. Let me know and I'll try to find the link again for you. I do miss analog, but not for the printing process with exacto knives and pasteups for the negatives for the printing plates. I do however, miss the graphic design for print. Very different than graphic design for the web as far as color processing, etc. CMYK - NOT RGB. I miss those wonderful 4-color Heidelberg Presses!
Great edit and interesting to read the above dialogue. Although I have to confess to not fully understanding all of it as not greatly into editing myself.
@wakelys Thank you, Susan! A long time ago, it was a necessity to learn to do a little editing to make something the clients wanted. The learning was not something I'd chosen at the time, but it has come in handy for me from time to time. So I try to keep my hand in it.
@marlboromaam I used to have CS5 but I’m using the 2020 PS now and I doubt that old software would even run on my Mac now. I didn’t do any intricate cutting of the rubylith film to make the masks... but I could do the easy ones... my colleagues were great at cutting the intricate masks. Wow... our worlds are so much different now with digital but it is nice to reminisce.
@kvphoto It is. I'm on an older iMac. Can't upgrade past El Capitan, so the newer versions of my software won't work on it. I will hate to replace it and get the new software. Not only will it be expensive, but older bells and whistles I love with some of the older software will disappear since they won't work with the newer stuff and aren't available. Thanks for the walk down memory lane with me. =) One more thing I wanted to ask you about... I figure you've done a lot of reading - more than most folks and, since you are a science fiction fan... How many folks do you think caught the references to Dante's Inferno in the movie, The Black Hole? I would have liked to recreate Maximilian and put him in a layer, but no time. I might look for a photo online for later fun.
@marlboromaam I completely get it about no it wanting to upgrade and loose your existing software... it killed me thinking about paying monthly for the creative cloud... I had to keep pretty current both with hardware and software since I was teaching online grad courses... I finally retired from that recently. The most difficult thing was trying to run synchronous classes... that took a lot of bandwidth and worked better with newer tech. You are welcome... I enjoyed the walk down memory lane too... I hate to admit it but I don’t remember ever seeing The Black Hole... so no idea about the reference... sorry.
@aikiuser Thank you, Jenn!
@wakelys Thank you, Susan! A long time ago, it was a necessity to learn to do a little editing to make something the clients wanted. The learning was not something I'd chosen at the time, but it has come in handy for me from time to time. So I try to keep my hand in it.