I’m currently teaching myself design and have been asked to create a molecular cloud similar to that in the attached image. I’m seeking advice on how one might obtain a similar result/effect in Photoshop. Thanks in advance.
Answer
It is fairly simple. Here are some key points:
STEP 1 – I first drew a random 1px line with the pentool.
STEP 2 – I used mask and brush tool + soft round brush to fade parts of it slightly.
STEP 3 – Then I drew bunch of dots in every corner. They vary in size.
STEP 4 – Then I made a brush out of it.
STEP 5 – Adjusted the brush settings
STEP 58 – Now if you use ellipse tool to make a path and use stroke path + brush tool, you get something like this:
You will want to stroke path multiple times with different brush sizes. Of course for realzies, you’d want to use more than one brush.
STEP 380 – …and after inverting colors, adding bunch of highlights, duplicating the brush pattern multiple times, using different blend modes and using filters > blur > tilt-shift to blur some of it… this is what you get:
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