Affinity Photo: Amazing Stars
Added 2019-03-27 18:46:56 +0000 UTCLearn how to create a star filled sky in easy steps. In this tutorial I show you how to fill any night sky with stars and make them look dreamy and awesome. We are going to learn how to mask & group the layers. Use Blend Modes Hard Light, Soft light and Screen to our advantage. We look at the Blur Layer Effect as a fast and easy way to make images dreamy.
Let's get started :)
Sky replacement Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQwCgU941I
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Comments
Yes, you’re right. I forgot that I usually send it to a ‘new layer with mask’. It depends on how much an exact cut I need. Small imperfections in the land-sky border are not always critical. If I discover a glaring mistake I will cut it out again. This goes back to my self taught days of Photoshop. I never understood masks, so I avoided using them. Thanks to you, I see their power now but old habit die hard. ;-) Please note, I still don’t have a ‘Community Tab’.
Greg Hartwick
2019-03-29 07:41:04 +0000 UTCHi Greg, that sounds like a great way too. However it will be a destructive step, so if you find you missed some part you would need to start over, while in a mask you can just brush it in or out. For example in this tutorial, it looks it my mask should be a tiny bit bigger. ;)
Olivio Sarikas
2019-03-29 06:31:43 +0000 UTCFolks, I learned a new way to do this from Olivio’s latest tutorial. I’ve always done it differently. I select the sky, invert the selection, then refine it and send it to a new layer. This gives me a perfect cutout of the land and I drop the sky image in behind it. I find it simpler than working with masks.
Greg Hartwick
2019-03-28 19:16:02 +0000 UTCThank you, Bob. Yes, the steps are pretty similar. I was thinking if i should even do it, because it's so close. But since someone asked me and it's a different topic to search for, i thought why not. But your point is very appreciated too. I didn't think about that. I think i'm a bit too much concerned with bringing new stuff all the time, instead of building on the things we already established.
Olivio Sarikas
2019-03-28 15:05:43 +0000 UTCOlivio, I would like to see more sky replacement (day and night) tutorials. I realize that the steps are basically the same but each presentation has its own learning when you reveal a slightly different perspective on a step of completion. This is true on other concepts of trainings as well. Thx
Bob Domine
2019-03-28 14:49:16 +0000 UTC
