Creating Exploding Planet Using Photoshop


Step 1.

Open a new document of width "600" Height "480" resolution "72" pixel/inch

background white. Double click on it and unlock the layer. Create a new layer.



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Step 2.


Drag the the image of dried mud(Download the mud.jpg given bottom of the page) to to your work space and from there drag in to the newly created document



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Step 3.

Select the layer containing dried mud and press "Ctrl+I" or else go to Image=>Adjustment=>Invert.



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Step 4.

Select "Elliptical Marquee Tool" Hold "Shift" and draw a perfect round selection.



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Press "Shift+Ctrl+I" to inverse the selection or else go to Select=>Inverse.
On your keyboard press "Delete" key. Do not deselect.



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Step 5.

This step press "Shift+Ctrl+I" again to select the mud. Now go to Filter=>Distort=>Spherize and apply the settings given below




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Step 6.


Now set the foreground color as Black select the "Background layer" and press "Alt+Backspace" fill the background With Black color.
Go to Layer=>Flatten Image





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Step 7.

Here go to Filter=>Sharpen=>Unsharp Mask and apply the selection.



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Step 8.

Go to Filter=>Distort=>Polar Coordinates apply the settings




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Step 9.

Now go to
Image=>Rotate Canvas=>90CW




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Now go to Filter=>Stylize=>Wind






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"Ctrl+F" to repeat the same method



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Now Image=>Rotate Canvas=>90CCW



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Step 10.


Again go to Filter=>Distort=>Polar Coordinates.

Select "Wind" and select "Rectangular To Polar"



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Step 11.

Now Go to image=>Hue/Saturation check the "Colorize" and move the sliders until you get "exploding" effect.





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