We paint black every on the image that we don’t want our stars showing up. We then go back in and apply a Layer Mask to the image. This helps us add Variation to our stars.

We play around with the settings by making the size a bit larger and smaller. Now that you’ve saved your new Brush, it’ll always be available for you! Make sure you name your Brush something easy to remember. We finalize everything by saving a New Brush Preset. The goal is for our stars to look realistic, there should be no specific Pattern or predictability.

Scattering and Transfer also help with the Spacing and visibility of our Star Brush. We adjust our Shape Dynamics, Angle Jitter, and even Brush Size until our Star Brush is perfect. We need to change our Brush Settings in order to get our Star Brush to where we want it. Now that we have our Star Brush created we are halfway done. This will give the stars more Variation when we actually place them on our image. We paint two tiny dots on opposite ends of our document. Whenever creating a Custom Brush, make sure the Background is white and the Brush Color is black. After we have our new document, we focus on the details of our Custom Brush. We bring up a new document and make the Size 500 x 500 pixels. We start off with creating a Custom Brush.

We knew that we had to approach creating stars with a different mindset if we wanted it to be time efficient and look realistic. It won’t look realistic, all the stars would look exactly the same.It would take you a great amount of time to position stars manually in Photoshop.This might not be the best approach for two simple reasons: Some people might approach this process by creating a tiny brush and manually placing the stars into the skyline. This is perfect because it gives us room to operate in Photoshop. Now in our original photo, there are no stars in the sky. We choose a beautiful panoramic image of the New York Skyline. How awesome would it be to be able to create stars?! Now of course, this can’t be done in real life but in Photoshop, the possibilities are endless.

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