Again, I am experimenting with the program MtPaint by Mark Tyler. It takes time to get used to it, but the more I play with it, the more I find I can do with mtpaint.
It is a lower end program than Gimp or Photoshop, but it does not take as long to load on my machine, so that's why I tend to use it more than other programs.
On this pic, entitled Red Shift1, I used about 7 layers to get the effects I wanted. The first is the starfield, and I used a blue spackling brush to get that effect. On the second layer, I wanted to get some red in there, so I used the spackle brush again, lowering the size. After I finished with the brush, I lowered the opacity to a desired setting(forgot which one) and used a gaussian blur This gives the pic a little red cloud effect in the background.
On the third layer, I used the gradient tool to make the larger stars. I used another layer for the spokes.
The planet, I used the circle shape tool, with a linear gradient then I shaded it with red.
On the ship, I used a white and grey gradient, to give it the silver effect.
Feel free to ask me any questions on this, I will be posting more pix as time goes by.
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