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Thaw. On a distant planet, in an extremely cold part of the universe, a star that has just succeded it's dwarf stage and gone to the red-giant stage will melt the ice shelf on a frozen planet. It has already completely heated the permafrost on a neighboring planet, and water is visible on the entire surface, along with dirt that has not been seen in an eon. Soon, the entire planet will be like it's brother, and the ice will be gone.
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I decided to do a minimalistic piece. No nebula. I also broke away from my "Desert Terragen Colors" habit. I have been working on this one for about 2 days now, just trying different things, nothing much. By the way, just because I submit alot of art doesn't mean that I don't put serious work behind. Common misconception. I start projects simultaneously, and then finish them on their own time. It works for me, so... I'll keep doing it.

EDIT: **ASTEROID TUTORIAL**
Forgot to mention my new asteroid technique! I assume if you have made asteroids, you know how to do an asteroid brush. Here's the trick... Take you're asteroid brush, after you have painted the asteroids, take the magic wand tool set the tolerance to 2, and click anywhere outside of an asteroid, then click Select Inverse. You have now selected all of your asteroids...
Click Filter>Render>Difference Clouds. Repeat the filter until you have a range of highlights and lowlights in each asteroid. Then, click on Filter>Stylize>Emboss. Emboss the asteroids at high settings, make sure the asteroids almost look like vectors. Then, click on Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast. Set the brightness at -58, contrast at 60. Voila! Textured Asteroids.

Don't forget to play with the settings and stuff, since I wrote this little tutorial from memory. You could get results that you like even better than from this!

Enjoy this one, I actually think it is one of my best
Thanks!

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