Planet

Okay, something just keeps bothering me in this image but i have no frikin idea what. It just looks wrong. Maybe you could help me.
Background is resized 200x200 image, so ignore it... I was a bit lazy here.

The clouds aren't stuctured, the color of the sea is too flashy. And maybe there's also a problem with the shade

It looks flat.

You need to add more shading and stuff... it doesn't look like a sphere.

At first, a planet is big, giant, so a planet need a lot of details, take a texture with a resolution 5000x5000.
Then you have to spherize the planete (i suppose you use photoshop) 2 time. Your planete isn't enough spherised.

The clouds and the earth have to be created in different layer. After spherisation and addition of somes reliefs, lets add somes light and shadows, atmosphere.
With the blending options, add inner and outer glow with linear dodge. Your atmosphere isnt enough transparent. The lighting relfexion depends of the nature of atmosphere and the sun. After that, add some shadows with inner shadow, make a big shadow, a nice planete isn't entire lightend. Erase the atmosphere in the shadow aera. No need a big atmosphere.

Now add somes clouds, take a high-resolution texture of clouds, black and with, work it a bit, then spherize.

Your planete look too little : no enough details, the couds looks normal mountain (bas technique), Too big atmosphere and no enough transparent.
You'll have something like that :

Copyright 2004 Alyn

Somes good links :
http://www.solarvoyager.com/images/t...rial_large.jpg
-The tutorial where i take the picture is very good and interesting, but i change my computer, and forget/don't have the link where i download it, maybe i can sent it to you, if you are interested.


PS: if i have to fix grammar, aske me.

Main problem is that I'm using paint shop, and some tools that would make this easier just sren't there...

2nd try tomorrow :P

Follow some of the tutorials by the godly greg martin.

For this kind of planet, the tuto of Greg Martin isn't the best.