Attempt at making earth

[deadsuperhero]

Well, I was goofing around in Photoshop today, and I wanted to try and make the earth. Without further adue, here it is:



I thought it looked okay. Slightly lumpy, but nevertheless I had a good time doing it, and that's what's important.

EDIT: Tried it with a completely different approach (screwed up a little, though)

[skyfire2]

It doesn't look like it has enough perspective. As you can see from this NASA photo, there is a inner glow around the earth that gives it a spherical shape. Also, it would help if you got rid of that light blue outline.

[Fizzii]

The second once is better in that it's not such an irregular shape (though Earth is by no means perfectly round ). I think you're using too much smudge/blur/airbrush. Look at satellite photos of earth to see what colours it is - not all green and blue, and learn the basics about form so that things don't look so flat.

(If you want an easy tutorial on planets, try this one: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_planet.html )

[rich]

Do you have any 3D programs like Maya, 3DsMax or Lightwave? When I used to do pictures of Earth, I'd create a sphere in a 3D Program, slap on an Earth graphic... position the camera and take a 3-D picture. It doesn't necessarilly look real but it would soot your purposes I'm sure.

[cReative]

There is too much variation in whiteness to greyness in the clouds.

[Da_Elf]

I'm a 3d animator and ive done countless earth and moon shots. My tool of choice (which i also teach) is 3dsmax. http://www.elfpro3d.com/Trutles/elfpro.mpg is a quickly put together company logo for my company. i still need to refine the elf at the end. The audio is currently only in 5.1 surround sound so i left it off of this quick mpg conversion. Most of my earth and moon textures are larger than 10k resolution.

EDIT
ah found an old one i did
http://www.elfpro3d.com/Gallery/Trans.mpg