this tutorial is meant to be a stepping stone and not an exact science . . . the moon was hard for me to figure out . . . been trying for several years to just get close but never managed one I could remember the steps I used until now and the least little variation gets me something totally different each time . . . where there is determination, there just MIGHT be a way . . . .
here are moons created by my PSP Buddies and a few of their ideas and fixes:
1. another idea for the haze by Gigi: I made a copy of the moon and hit the Blur button several times. The I resized the "unblurred" version by 5 percent, and copied and pasted it over the blurred version as a new layer. Then I reduced the Opacity for the blurred layer until I had what I wanted.
2. another way for the haze by Margaret: I don't have Eye Candy 400, I just have the demo that came with my download of Eye Candy 3.1 and the corona filter will only work if I buy it and I sure can't do that. So, I used the Glow filter in Eye Candy 3.1 for my corona. The settings that I used are:
Width [Pixels] 200, Opacity - 60, Opacity Drop-off - Fat, Color - R - 223, G - 194, B - 153.
the free version of Eye Candy 3 available here . . . . under the tutorial menu.
3. mine: playing with the carona . . . DON'T be afraid to play with your filters and I am sorry this filter isn't free, I loath writing tutorials for filters that aren't free, but it IS what I used . . .. on the first one, I played with the settings and added some wave, then changed the tint to a bluish white; on the second one, I resized the merged moon, increased the canvas size to enormous and turned the size of the carona way up . . . same moon on both though . . .
1. another idea for the haze by Gigi: I made a copy of the moon and hit the Blur button several times. The I resized the "unblurred" version by 5 percent, and copied and pasted it over the blurred version as a new layer. Then I reduced the Opacity for the blurred layer until I had what I wanted.
2. another way for the haze by Margaret: I don't have Eye Candy 400, I just have the demo that came with my download of Eye Candy 3.1 and the corona filter will only work if I buy it and I sure can't do that. So, I used the Glow filter in Eye Candy 3.1 for my corona. The settings that I used are:
Width [Pixels] 200, Opacity - 60, Opacity Drop-off - Fat, Color - R - 223, G - 194, B - 153.
the free version of Eye Candy 3 available here . . . . under the tutorial menu.
3. mine: playing with the carona . . . DON'T be afraid to play with your filters and I am sorry this filter isn't free, I loath writing tutorials for filters that aren't free, but it IS what I used . . .. on the first one, I played with the settings and added some wave, then changed the tint to a bluish white; on the second one, I resized the merged moon, increased the canvas size to enormous and turned the size of the carona way up . . . same moon on both though . . .