Stars

Hello
This is the second entry of my blog. Actually this is just another experiment i made during these few days.
The below is the another pic i took when i was in Phan Thiet.























After awhile, i made it become like this






















I have used lasso tool, blur tool, extract filter, Clone stamp tool, Gaussian Blur, lens flare....
Actually, this is just an experiment to create a star field. The result was not very good, as you can see. The star field looks a bit unrealistic. Actually, to make a star field on a real picture is somewhat hard.

First i have taken out the sky and the human in the first picture. Then i apply a darker theme to the whole desert using Bright/Contrast tool. The picture has a darker and isolated theme. Then i began to make a new section to create the stars.
Basically, there are 2 parts in making a starfield. I used the first layer called "Small stars". I applied Noise to this layer. Then reduce the brightness and contrast to an appropriate amount. Then dublicate this layer to make a new layer called "Big stars". I used Brightness/Contrast to make it even darker, so that only the bigger stars left. After that, i dublicate the layer, and make the blur using Gaussian blur, in order to make a glowing side for the stars. Finally, i made another layer and used Black Background and add the Len Flare filter.