Photoshop action to create an outer space scene

June 6, 2007 by Emanuele Feronato
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The net is full of tutorials about creating an outer space image, but every one of them, in order to achieve good results, require the user (you) to manually draw stars or adjust some parameters.

The real challenge is to code an action that creates an outer space without any drawing by the user.

The result I got, is a quite realistic outer space, and every time I play the action I get a different image.

Look at the examples:

Emanuele Feronato's outer space

Emanuele Feronato's outer space

Emanuele Feronato's outer space

Emanuele Feronato's outer space

Emanuele Feronato's outer space

As you can see, results are quite good, especially for game design.

Download the action and run into Photoshop.

I developed it with CS2 and I cannot test with any other platform so if you have a different version and the action runs, please let me know.

The action stops itself when you can change the image size and when you can change the background color of the nebulas you will created.

Enjoy it and let’s start coding space games…

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18 Responses to “Photoshop action to create an outer space scene”

  1. Freelance Website Design on June 6th, 2007 8:03 pm

    This is really cool. Your scenes actually look pretty realistic. Especially the last one. Good job.

  2. SEO Services on June 6th, 2007 8:15 pm

    These are cool space scenes. where did you learn to do that?

  3. Michael on June 7th, 2007 12:39 am

    Really nice action, works just great, and looks great for such little time. =)

  4. Frederik J on June 7th, 2007 7:27 am

    Yeah, i love i to. Good work there!

  5. Liam on June 7th, 2007 9:05 pm

    Works in CS3

  6. Neko on July 2nd, 2007 7:57 pm

    i cant open the file =( pls help me dude =(

  7. Peter on July 6th, 2007 12:08 pm

    When running in Photoshop CS3 I get to pick the two background colours, and then it fails with the error message:

    “Could not complete the command because the selected area is empty.”

    It appears to have reached the stage
    Difference Clouds
    Set current layer
    Make layer
    Fill

  8. Peter on July 6th, 2007 12:20 pm

    And another follow-up: that was using a canvas of 850×75px; when I used an 850×500px canvas it completed without an error.

  9. Mark on July 30th, 2007 6:12 am

    Dude, how do you use Action in photoshop?

  10. pareshrathod on September 9th, 2007 7:45 pm

    Thanks,to construct so complicated atn & sharing.

  11. Alix on September 28th, 2007 2:33 pm

    Took me a while to figure out how to use Action and where to find it but I found out eventually.

    If anyone is clueless where it is :

    [Window > Actions / f9]

    Anyways, awesome Action. I’ll be using it in game siggy’s

  12. B. Rockafeller on September 29th, 2007 1:57 am

    Thanks for this. I used it and worked out great.

  13. madi on September 30th, 2007 11:39 pm

    I believe that you just added color to these photos. i do not believe that you are a liar. but, good job making it look good! ;) –NOT!!! you didn’t even make it believable! haha! sucker!!

  14. madi delina on September 30th, 2007 11:40 pm

    i believe that you are a liar and put color in the black area.nice try. you didn’t fool me though! haha! sucker!

  15. David on October 12th, 2007 9:07 pm

    Awesome!

  16. stolen on April 8th, 2008 12:14 am

    madi, you’re a loser.

    great job btw on the space thingy. now i can use the techniques on my illustration exam. and its theme is ‘outer space’.

    -peace out-

  17. alfonso castrillo on September 22nd, 2008 1:28 pm

    very coll, thank you

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