Nebula 1

First attempt at doing nebula artwork, I used D-Design's nebula tutorial here: [link]

This was also the first time that I made my own brushes, I did try to use some cloud brushes that I'd download, but they weren't compatible with the version of photoshop that I use at work (6 - I have CS2 at home )

It looks a little garish / cartoonish, and I don't think the "window" effect that the nebula creates really works, I didn't have a clear plan of the shape I wanted it to take though, this was just how it evolved.

I also need to spend a lot of time working out how to make planets look nice, right now I'm just downloading large images from NASA's visible earth site then spherising them to look like planets, I've been assured this is teh evil though, so I'm going to have to do better in future.

I'm posting it anyway while my skillz continue to progress. Hope y'all like it anyway.