Bobofthedead

Hmm... There's an automatic effect on Photoshop CS3 (I got a free trial). I wonder if anyone can do anything with that? Possibly you could rewrite it, changing the code to whatever is used for PDN... (I know zilch about programming...)

Oh, right... I'll have to try that. Cool rings Jezulkim.

I suppose it's easier to grasp drawing circles than the curves trick... Oh, BTW, nice picture...

Nice idea Bob, but it doesn't really give the desired effect, unless I did something wrong... Why not post a picture showing what you mean?

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could make an effect/plugin to create a "lens flare" somewhat like this? I have seen it in many pictures and would like to be able to easily recreate this. If anyone can,could you post it on the plugins board, as I'm sure others would like to use te effect, and the board strikes me as the most obvious place to post them. Thanks Josh

Oh, right. Cool ideas everyone... I did something entirely different. I basically created a radial gradient, and then modified the luminosity curves like in Extra's Nova tutorial, so thanks Extra!

This may sound n00bie, but I'm having a bit of trouble. The tut calls for a "soft brush" and PDN only has a hrd one which makes this look awful...

Brilliant, just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Hey, I've been trying to make this big panorama of a solar system, but I want to do a ringed planet somewhere. Could anyone give me a good tutorial describing how to draw some rings? Don't forget to include lots of pictures... Thanks, Josh