Starfields and Space Imagery Challenge/tute

[Raven]

:} Great one Doug!

Here's one I did in PS of a type of spiral galaxy seen edge on with a dust lane obscuring part of the central hub.

[dug]

Raven :: Very nice image mate......And cheers for the 2 thumbs up. 8-)

[Raven]

;) Cheers Doug!

[Red Rooster]

we should all put our planets star fields etc... together and create a galaxy, just a suggestion ;\




p.s i can't get my pics to load correctly, they are the sizes required but they always load up bad.

[Raven]

Well, with the amount of imagery we have accumulated already putting it altogther into one galaxy and then fitting it into the 600 wide x 800 pixel size and under 100kb might be a challenge in itself! [confused] ;) But like in the film MIB size doesn't matter and the galaxy could be actually very small in another dimension, like fitting inside a marble..... \:] :B Give it a shot!

Regarding the image upload prob.....maybe private message one of the mods about what's happening. The only thing I could guess you mean is something to do perhaps with the resolution setting you are using with your images. In using PS when I use "Save For Web" and then adjust the quality setting to give a jpg output of under 100kb it works pretty well (ends up using the medium to high quality setting).

[Red Rooster]

Thanks raven for the help on loading :}

after seeing how many space related things everyone is doing I just thought it might fun if we all did a big group project

[Raven]

Have any proposals as to how we could start it and how to proceed adding the various items? Give your ideas and perhaps others might join in (it could take me a bit to participate with the other stuff I've got going, but I'd join in).

[Red Rooster]

I could create a new topic, and in that topic people can start posting all of their space pics. From their we would have to create a way for people to work together.

[Raven]

The tricky part is the "getting people to work together" -- and getting enough others interested... just from what I've seen on forums mostly people prefer to create their own complete images. The closest thing to what you suggest has been with the old "fodder" threads we used to have here. These happened to revolve around members contributed photos of themselves and then others modified them into funny comical scenes, etc. This present thread sort of uses some of that idea too, in that you first investigate the starfield and planet tutes to get the hang of making some and then you create your own type of astronomical imagery from there. Contest threads are similar in that they often present a starting image and then you have to modify it to a complete and new one yourself.

As we are all at a distance online we can't actually work with anything other than what's posted mutually in a thread and shared for a project...but from there the idea that comes to mind from your suggestion is working on a single image project where everyone takes the image as has been added to or modified by the other users and adds their own portions/modifications to it. For example say someone started the basic black 600 x 800 square with some of a starry field, then another person modifies it more, then others add more, eventually add planets perhaps, etc. This would work better if we had a huge space like a wall for a mural to work on...so since it would be limited by the size here, the project thread would probably complete very quickly and to keep such a thing going you'd have to start many new ones. That's probably why it hasn't already been tried here.
Give it a try, start a new thread for it, if you've got some other friends who want to do this too, so it will keep going...if you do though, be sure to make it known to those who post that their images that they will be used by others so no one gets upset about that. I can't speak for any others regarding use of the images already posted...generally it's not what people want to see happening without their being asked.

[theKeeper]

Nice work everyone, keep it going. :}

I called this "The Flower Nebula". [honesty]