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Ov3RMinD — Tutorial: Nebula-Brushes

Published: 2010-03-13 11:58:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 40262; Favourites: 1774; Downloads: 1016
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Description I'm getting asked quite a lot how I do all my nebula work, so I decided it would be a good idea to share some of my knowledge in a tutorial.
Now that my semester has finished and I'm done with all the exams I finally found time to do this. Turned out more comprehensive than I expected.
The brush I made for this tutorial can be found here: [link]

This is my contribution to the great community here at deviantArt.

If you have any suggestions, found any errors or just got any kind of feedback, please let me know.


I hope it'll be useful.

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Special thanks to !Kirill-Gorshkov for the english Photoshop screenshots and ^Elandria for the Daily Deviation.

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Note:
I've used Adobe Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial. It appears that the brush settings menu has undergone some minor changes in CS5. As far as I know, all the relevant options are still available, they just might have been moved to another sub-menu.
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Comments: 91

lauraypablo [2016-05-22 17:38:12 +0000 UTC]

awesome tutorial

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ObsidianObscure [2015-04-04 17:21:25 +0000 UTC]

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ObsidianObscure [2015-04-04 17:17:46 +0000 UTC]

IMPOSIBRRUUU!!!!!1

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Samurai-ko [2014-07-16 18:37:45 +0000 UTC]

This is WONDERFUL, thank you so much!

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HunterKi11er [2013-11-09 02:21:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for this excellent tutorial. 

Really pleased with the resulting look.

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Skullflower90 [2013-09-12 17:21:46 +0000 UTC]

This is so helpful thanks! I find it quite hard to draw this cloudy/smokey-texture, but the results are great anyway

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Skullflower90 In reply to Skullflower90 [2013-09-12 17:26:00 +0000 UTC]

Ach herrje, du bist ja deutsch. Mal sehen, wie viele Stunden ich heute noch an meinem ersten Space Art sitzen werde, die Ergebnisse werden natürlich gepostet!

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Linstock [2013-07-21 01:57:35 +0000 UTC]

Great work , thanks.

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cuernomuerto [2013-04-22 22:39:51 +0000 UTC]

good thanks

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PearlPhoenix [2013-03-07 02:20:52 +0000 UTC]

I learned a lot from this. Thank you so much

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celticwren [2012-10-15 01:59:36 +0000 UTC]

This is great!

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melsr007 [2012-09-26 14:13:41 +0000 UTC]

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Buho01 [2012-09-20 20:46:37 +0000 UTC]

Really cool

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asaph70 [2012-09-16 23:32:00 +0000 UTC]

to bad I only have PSE9 and can't set brushes up this way. Great tut thanks for sharing

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TholiaBentz [2012-09-12 09:28:16 +0000 UTC]

Amazing tuto !! You sure deserved the DD !

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Thy-Darkest-Hour [2012-09-12 01:18:54 +0000 UTC]

Really love this tutorial, unfortunately it seems that I am better at painting my own fireworks than I am nebulas

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Zedna7 [2012-09-11 20:16:50 +0000 UTC]

this is fantastic! Thanks for making it

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InuyashaRules6596 [2012-09-11 19:38:09 +0000 UTC]

grr this would be so cool to try but all i have is gimp

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finex666 [2012-09-11 18:47:17 +0000 UTC]

amazing!

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MercuryCrest [2012-09-11 18:45:58 +0000 UTC]

If I may ask, what version of PS are you using?

I've got CS5 but don't seem to have the "Other Dynamics" choice under Brush Tip Shape....

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Ov3RMinD In reply to MercuryCrest [2012-09-12 22:40:18 +0000 UTC]

I am using CS3. It appears that the menu structure for brush settings has changed in CS5. The settings are still the same but you might find them under different sub menus.

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MercuryCrest In reply to Ov3RMinD [2012-09-12 23:57:11 +0000 UTC]

Gotcha. Thanks.

I was still able to follow the tutorial and get an excellent result.

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Moonchilde-Stock [2012-09-11 17:43:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for this... I really need to learn how to make brushes out of the nebula I have already created on my other account Casperium.. do you have tuts or know of any for making brushes???

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Ov3RMinD In reply to Moonchilde-Stock [2012-09-12 22:58:21 +0000 UTC]

Sadly no. Everything I know about brushes I've found by googling online or figuring out myself.

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Moonchilde-Stock In reply to Ov3RMinD [2012-09-13 17:28:52 +0000 UTC]

Well I guess i will have to do the same.lol.. thanks

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MercuryCrest [2012-09-11 16:54:49 +0000 UTC]

Excellent tutorial!

I was just trying to figure out a similar effect for use with a watercolor technique I picked up a little while ago.

This will find a lot of use in my backgrounds. Thanks!

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Telperion-Studio [2012-09-11 16:34:25 +0000 UTC]

Nice! Thank you.

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Rita-Ria [2012-09-10 08:04:46 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Partin-Arts [2012-09-10 03:16:33 +0000 UTC]

Nice work!

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igeking [2012-09-10 03:00:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the Tutorial!!, its great!!

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suchiMANGOLASSI [2012-09-10 02:27:45 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is really helpful and useful! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this for us!

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Ov3RMinD In reply to suchiMANGOLASSI [2012-09-12 22:48:02 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. I'm glad you like it and hope you'll learn a lot.

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Max-Sadhaka [2012-09-09 22:23:48 +0000 UTC]

thank you for a cool tutorial

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JuliSketch [2012-09-09 22:23:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for sharing this with us!

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Cheda5543 [2012-09-09 21:05:24 +0000 UTC]

great job

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gravenimagez [2012-09-09 19:31:14 +0000 UTC]

Sweet! Thank you so much!

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Nazo-The-Unsolvable [2012-09-09 19:13:25 +0000 UTC]

Well that's really cool, but some of us just can't follow these tuts. Digital painting with a tablet or a mouse doesn't come easy to most. Most of the time it just looks like a stroke fest, or the shading and lighting look off. But I really do envy the people that can do this type of work.

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Ov3RMinD In reply to Nazo-The-Unsolvable [2012-09-12 22:46:29 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I know what you're talking about. I'm actually a little bit sad I didn't go more in-depth about the painting part of the tutorial. But to be honest, there isn't that much more I could write. Most of it is just practice, practice, practice.

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Nazo-The-Unsolvable In reply to Ov3RMinD [2012-09-12 23:05:03 +0000 UTC]

Eh, no one's at fault here lol. People have natural talents and other talents they can't obtain. That's being realistic. I was just making it apparent that something like this doesn't come easy, even if you want to learn how, doesn't mean you will. You have to have the 'eye'. Y'know?

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zummerfish [2012-09-09 17:31:46 +0000 UTC]

this is absolutely amazing

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Jello-In-A-Box [2012-09-09 17:06:24 +0000 UTC]

This is so useful ! Thank you
I always wanted to know how people did that

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TheCynicalFlowerGirl [2012-09-09 14:56:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, thanks so much for sharing and congrats on your DD!

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Ov3RMinD In reply to TheCynicalFlowerGirl [2012-09-12 22:48:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

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JHibbs [2012-09-09 14:19:05 +0000 UTC]

TY

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TheButterfly [2012-09-09 14:11:54 +0000 UTC]

Very informative! Thanks for sharing!

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DibujosDeGerardoGC [2012-09-09 13:05:44 +0000 UTC]

I dont like it, because you use a previus maked brush, if you do this in manually paint for all the details, i respect you, but you use a brush, you use photoshop, and i don't like it. I hope you understand my point. If i have to draw in Photoshop, i prefer to draw nothing.

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Ov3RMinD In reply to DibujosDeGerardoGC [2012-09-12 22:54:09 +0000 UTC]

So you want to say I have to use something like Paint? Honestly, using paint is like cheating. In my opinion, you should write every single bit in the picture file yourself. Having a program that translates bits into pixels so you can paint blue and red and green pixels is not real painting. I hope you understand my point.

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DibujosDeGerardoGC In reply to Ov3RMinD [2012-09-13 00:42:58 +0000 UTC]

In MS Paint, you have to create all by yourself, the program don't make the light, distorsion or the brush, you have to do it. I only write my opinnion, and i don`t want to continue this "discusion" because I critic your deviation and you, ofended, report me and i lost my accout because DA ban me, at critic one "super fantastic and explosive uncriticable" dayly deviation. I sorry, but i don`t like this, and i spech us that. Don't offend. If you like use photoshop, continue, i only give my point. If you don`t like my opinion, only block me and you only have positive coments for you. Don't report my opinion. Freedom expression are lost.

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Ov3RMinD In reply to DibujosDeGerardoGC [2012-09-13 23:05:43 +0000 UTC]

I have absolutely no problem with what you are saying. I understand that this is your opinion and I can see where you are coming from even if I don't agree with you. Why on earth would I report you for stating your opinion in a civilized manner? That's what these comments are for. And I certainly don't expect that everyone loves what I'm doing.

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Moonchilde-Stock In reply to DibujosDeGerardoGC [2012-09-11 17:50:36 +0000 UTC]

Que te pasa?? Si no te gusta usar los brushes (o Photoshop) que otro ha creado, entonces no lo uses... No tienes que decirle a este artista lo que le has dicho. Es mejor que no le digas nada. Hay mucha gente que si usan los Brushes y agradecen mucho que alguien les haya hecho algo tan util.

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