DarkBlizz

Yes i'm very happy to have the EU account


You can email me all the details at id.inarius@yahoo.co.uk or via PM (whatever is easier for you).


Plus a very big thank you for this contest:)

Greetings,


I didn't have the time for anything too custom made or high-quality so i went with a standard space wallpaper.






And here are few bits of info of what i put into my layers (before the final flattening) to achieve that look (in case anyone is wondering ).


1. Lighter color at 20% opacity - the white line
2. Soft light at 100% opacity - the font filling (Cambria Bold)
3. Vivid light at 20% opacity - the font's edge
4. Overlay at 80% - gradient from light blue to black
5. Linear light at 100% - soft gray-light blue with a 105mm lens flare filter at 130%
6. Normal at 100% - earth (cut and adapted from Najoomi's beautiful earth*)
7. Normal at 100% - dark blue sphere to give the earth it's eclipse like shadow
8. Luminosity at 60% - dark background with tons of stars (grain filter/1 pixel white pencil/various star brushes**)
9. Normal at 70% - purple Clouds filter with very high contrast


And of course the usual image adjustment/random filter/dodging and so on.


Credits:
*Najoomi.com for the earth
**whomever made the brushes

As it is now the image is also nice to use the hue or channel mixer sliders on to get a blood red look or whatever.


Hope you enjoy it:p