40 Mind-Blowing Digital Space Paintings
Some of the world’s most stunning visions of space are made possible with Photoshop. The ability to combine vibrant colors, photo manipulations and ethereal effects makes the software ideal for this kind of work. Here are 40 incredible visions of space from four extremely talented Photoshop artists.
Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on Psdtuts in January of 2009
Greg Martin
Greg Martin has been fascinated with sharing his outlook on life through his art since he was a child. He started out as most young artists do, drawing and painting. Later on, he moved into visual design. Today, Greg works on a variety of projects including concept art for movies, illustrations, and other design projects.
Tobias Roetsch
Tobais is another extremely impressive young artist. He is 21 and lives in Germany. He manages to do quite well selling his space art on his own website as well as the DA Prints store. Something unique about Tobais and his work is that he uses a lot of his own photography in his space art.
Alexei Kozachenko
Mr. Alexei Kozachenko is a young designer I came across on Deviant Art. Alexei Kozachenko is a young designer in his early 20s and currently lives in Switzerland. He started learning design in 2005 and used the Deviant Art community to learn more about his art and perfect his skills.
Just Alyn
Alyn is a spirited young designer, 19 years young. This creative and humorous artist has the ability to create a variety of landscapes and images that are, well, out of this world. He also uses Deviant Art on a regular basis to partner up with other artist and collaborate on projects to share with the community.
Tutorials
You might also want to take a look at a few of these tutorials.
- The Cosmos: Create a Red Giant Star in Photoshop
- The Cosmos: Create a Supernova and a Ringed Planet in Photoshop
- The Cosmos: Create a Spiral Galaxy
- Premium: Create an Exploding Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant in Photoshop
- Premium: Paint a Planetary Typhoon With Default Photoshop Brushes
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Great stuff, I’ve been a fan of Martin’s for a while now. I had actually used one of Alexi’s pieces as my wallpaper without knowing his name.
I never saw something amazing before
Realy nice post
Thx
I try, but I’ll never be that good.
Absolutely amazing. I personally feel that these digital artists that create space designs such as this are the most talented in their field because it isn’t easy to create a fantasy space scene so believable with so much natural detail…really great stuff. I need to buy one of these for my wall
Amazing images! My experience is more within traditional oil and acrylic painting. I haven’t even dared to think about trying to go digital. Your art really takes off. Younger generation really has something to offer to us oldies. thanks.
Mind-blowing
Yes i agree with crystalprocovers, please can we have some tuts on these?
Great post!
Just amazing!
This is Waaaaaaaay toooo coooooool
MaestroO!! estan super buenos los trabajoS!
Wow! These are some amazing works
very nice art!
Does anyone know of a good tutorial to make realistic ocean water waves like that one near the end of the list? (Nine Clouds)
Awesome… o.O
http://horvi.deviantart.com/art/Beyond-Infinity-36841790
this one is my favourite
WOW..truly amazing. Specially Tobias Roetsch’s work.
very special, cool dreams
wow this is really amazing!!! i kn they have almost everything at devianart bt if yo guy need any adobe program let me know or visit us at http://www.flowmelody.com and ill make sure u get yours for free!!
A-bloody-mazing pieces here!!! Wish I can make at least one of ‘em. haha
Very nice
awesome!
Fabulous…
I.m stunned
Ohhh god….when I can make these types of images by myself….
Awesome work of art. I am a programmer and am constantly trying to get up-to-date with Photoshop techniques.
One day….
really good
Hehe cheers for the kind feature, much appreciated
Ive seen several requests for tuts, and while im not a big fan of step by step tutorials i did make this little nebula guide a short while back.
maybe itll help:
http://nameless-designer.deviantart.com/art/Nebula-Guide-106438810
Stunning Realism!!!
Can’t believe that you guys did these with Photoshop. It looks like you went out there and took those photos yourself!!!!!!!!
Simply Best ….. have 1 que?
Is this all images are made with help of Photoshop or This is Paintings?????
plz if somwonw can ans………!!!!!
WOW, they where amazing, makes my photoshop skills look lame
, do u recon one of them artists could possible show us how they did one of them, because that would be great 
this is just absolutely mind blowingly fantastic. screw everyone that says science is for geeks, you havent lived until you’ve seen science.
Very good Images!!!
Amazing! Hats off to all of you.
lost for words thats for sure, amazing artwork, makes me wanna go back to art school
This was a great collection of compelling artwork. I have to say may favorite art out of all of these was “Kryptonite”.
i can do better than that but thanks
just joking lol thx
Really fantastic works, great artists. Cheers!
it’s very eassy to learn me.thanks for it.
1 – I don’t know about ‘Mind Blowing’.
2 – A lot of these aren’t digital paintings. Rather, they are photoshopped images.
Understand, I think there’s some nice work here – but you should be more accurate in your description.
Stunning and wonderful.
Even if some of these are more photo manipulation than painting as some have pointed out… I could care less
The time and talent it takes to make a stunning, believable photo manipulation that can carry it’s own is totally worth appreciating! It’s hard work man!
Each of these is pretty amazing, and a few are mind-blowing. Great stuff! Great inspiration!
WOW these are amazing thanks for sharing and will you plz tell me any tutorial that is relevant to that
Сool. Beautiful work.
I Ethereal, astral, spiritual, and other-wordly. I don’t know how these guys do it. I’m gonna use each image here as a rotating screen saver. Screen savers are quite sometimes also life savers.
I loved the NINE CLOUDS one
EPIC dude! fantastic stuff!
Tobias Roetsch does it for me – like others I wish i could do as well as some of these guys