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Published: 2005-06-20 08:17:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 1224; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 74
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hey guys and girls! weeeeee ive been a busy bunnie and woooooo this took some time! Hope you like it! all stars etc were made in photoshop and the landscape at the bottom in terragen and touched up in ps. Took the best part of the day to make mainly due to the size of it! Its HUGEEEEEE full view highly reccomended!!! tell me what you think... im new to this space stuff so i know its not perfect but hey... im experimenting!J
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looks good. I would soften up the light rays, but otherwise, keep it up!
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Thank you for the constructive feedback! Most helpful.
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very nice! I love the stars and the colours of the sky, very crisp and detailed, same with the water, very nice
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hehe why thank you vanilla! personally its one of my best pieces in my opinion although others have got more favs lol
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very nice! its really nice to full view it to see all the little details in this... i bet it was hard to try and blend the space part and that bright light into the clouds and sky part
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hehe just a lot of carefull erasing
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and a lot of hacking!!1111 OH NOEZ!!!!1!11!!one!!! TEH H4X0RZ!!!!1!1!1!11
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mwahahaha!!! 
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because u are confused therefore ur mind cant comprehend therefore i have done my job therefore u are going to be hypnotized therefore you'll do what i tell you to THEREFORE you're in my control THEREFORE MWAHAHA!!!
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nice! dunno if you've heard of it, but there's a group of terra-space artists, as they're called: ~TerraSpace I think you'd fit in
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hehe! why thank you! iwill check it out!
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Very cool, i realy like the big star with all the rays and the colors around it.
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hehe why thnk u *hug*
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Wow... that's beautiful...
Excellent work... the purples & blues are what truly make this image so magical...
Great work!!
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hehe thank you so much! and for the fav! glad ppl like it!
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WOW its amazing on full view you can see all the detail and your right it is very BIG...i love the colours and the way the moon reflects on the lake
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hehe yayness! seeeee told ya to do a full view
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yep and i did what you told me
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why thank you! and thanks for the +fav too
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omg nice i luv the terrain at bottom GJ!! did u use brushes for stars? I like the star just above terrain looks like it about 2 explode GJ
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hey you! thank for the fav! no i didnt use any brushes just white noise and then eraser and spray can and stuff nothing too fancy. just a lot of mouse work! the explosion was done a while ago actually by myself "supernova" i think its called one of my early deviations - i just re did it slightly and combined with this piece
glad people like it! thannkies!!! have a lovley day
jason
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i think its cool. better than what i coud have done ever! it's really cool. i like the big burtsy star thing towards the bottom. its got lots of colours which work together really well.
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What I like:
-The color
-The clouds
-The way the stars clump up, it's a good execution of the Greg Martin starfield.
-The glow on the water
-The layout of the image.
What I don't like:
-I don't like the lensflares that much. They're a bit of a nuisance in digital art, as they're way overdone and easy to recognize. It's widely accepted that a lensflare in an image is amateurish. To have such a strong image, but throw a lensflare on it, just somehow eliminates any professionalism that an image could carry, so I always reccomend against doing so.
-The water itself. It's a generic terragen water texture, one that I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of times. Try for something new. Try finding another image of water on the Internet, something like crashing waves, and composite it on another layer into the image using a mask layer.
-The text at the bottom. Way too strong. It takes away from the potency of the image, and keeps detracting my eyes from it. It's a neat effect, one that could be used for a title sequence in a film. But here, you want the image to stand out, so make sure the title is subtle.
What can be done:
-I think that the color of the top 2/3 of the image needs to match with the bottom 1/3. I wouldn't affect the top though, the color on it is perfect and pristine. Try taking the bottom part, and open up the color balance. Under the shadows tab, give it a lot more blue with a twinge of green, and under the highlights, give it a warm yet subtle magenta.
-To better composite the starfield with the water, I duplicate a portion of that starfield, flip it vertically, place it over the water, add a blur, some noise, then a medium motion blur at 0 degrees. Squish down, and with the smudge tool (preferably with a spatter brush) work the reflection so it fits with the reflections of the waves. I'm not getting the same glare as it is in the sky.
-Just eliminate those lensflares completely. Especially the massive one in the middle. You've already got a moon in the sky, keep that as the focal point. Eliminating that supernova-like burst will make the image look more tame, and fix a lot of the compositting issues with it.
-Lastly, I wouldn't have so much space up there just to have space. I would put in a couple small planets, or other astronomical elements to give it some more interest.
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hey thanks mate that was really good feedback 
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wow, that has some depth... i like the way the sky contrasts with the landscape so much... they're like two separate pieces put together. Great impact when full viewed!
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