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5. With the selection still running, go to Effects>Artistic Effects>Balls and Bubbles. Click on the Reset button first, to make sure all the settings are at Default before we start......ok, now go into the Preset list and select the 'Brushed Metal' preset. On the main dialogue box, make sure 'Single Ball or Bubble' and 'Maximum Possible Size' are both checked. You don't have to worry about anything else here. Click on OK to finish, and deselect the circle, Selections>Select None. This is what you now should see (shown right): |
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6. Now we're going to play around a little with the Hue and Saturation sliders. Go to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Hue/Saturation/Lightness and make sure you have these settings:
Edit: Master; Colorize: UNchecked; Hue: 0; Saturation: 0; Lightness: 67 (as shown below):
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7. Hit OK to apply the new Hue and Saturation settings.
Note: Don't worry if your preview panels may show your selection to be a little off-center, that's because our image is to big to fit into the preview pane. To remedy this, click on the navigation button (shown at left) and this will open a second pop-up preview. Just slide the square over the center of your image and voila, you'll get a much better preview with ALL of your selection showing, such as you can see in my image on the left.
8. Hmmmmmm....I think at this point our moon looks a little grainy, so to fix this up we'll give it a slight blur. Go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 1.00.
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9. Almost finished! Well, the moon looks pretty good as is, and if you prefer it the way it is, that's fine. You now have a perfect, clear full moon. Buuuut, if you want to add a little atmosphere, why not have some whispy clouds drifting over it? (Ideal for a spooky moon!)
There are at least two different ways I can suggest to do this. First of all, try what I did to get the effect you see below. Open up the airbrush tool, and try spraying a little colour across the surface of the moon (tip: make sure you create a new layer for this - just in case you want to move the cloud around a little after you finish).
With the airbrush set to a low Opacity setting, I used a shade of light grey for the cloud's colour, namely, HTML: #C0C0C0, or R:192, G:192, B:192. These are the settings I used for the airbrush tool: Brush set to Default, Shape: Round, Size: 32, Hardness: 50, Step: 25, Density: 100, Rotation: 0, Opacity: 8, Blend Mode: Normal, Rate: 5. Then, all I did was drag the mouse back and forth from side to side a few times until I had the whispy look that I was after.
Alternatively, you could use a tube of a cloud, put it on a new layer and play around with the opacity slider. If you need a cloud tube, Jasc have some good ones on their tube download page. They're included in the Spring tubes (look for the butterfly on the tubes page), and if you need help on installing them you'll find information on how to do that on the Jasc site also. OK, that's it, you've now officially finished :-)
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