So, I recently decided to do a remake of a realistic looking galaxy and I think it actually came out very well. As for researching I just looked up photos of galaxy's and all sorts of different things in space and just tried to make it resemble these things just as much. When I showed it to my some friends and family, there only advice was to put some 'dust' in there, which I found to be quite easy. All I had to do was choose a brush and just put some scattering in there with it and walla, I had some 'space dust'. The galaxy looks very complex, but its really just using very few, simple tools, and making the right angles, so it basically just takes a lot of mediocre things and puts them together to make something epic. This really changed my mentality towards graphic design so much different. There were times when I would see a project someone did in photoshop that looked amazing and just think to myself "Well I shouldn't even try this, there's no way mine would look anywhere near as good," or "There's no way I could ever make something look so good." I'm now very willing to try all sorts of projects no matter what the difficulty because I can tell two things:
One - It's not as hard as it looks.
Two - If I really try, it can be done.
P.S.- If you want the photo is 1920x1080 so you can make it your desktop background.
My next project kind of contradicts what photoshop is supposed to be used for in my opinion, I'm going to do a de-touchup on a famous star(s). I'm going to try to find a star that is kind of a household name, right now I'm looking at using Seth Green or Seth Rogen. This project will probably end up just being a compilation of tutorials and probably a few things I know/will figure out to do on my own. I think the most challenging part of this will be morphing other things onto his face so it doesn't look so out of place and instead just flows with the picture. Wish me luck!
