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"When a star like our own reaches the end of its life, it begins to run out of hydrogen fuel in its core. Like a car running out of gas, it will begin to sputter, swelling to a size that could encompass every planet in our solar system out to Mars. When this happens, the sun will swallow the Earth and will spell certain doom for all life on our planet."First image for psdtuts+ on the series "The Cosmos", a 4 part series of FREE tutorials so get over there hope you enjoy it.
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Is that region on Earth Greece? Anyway, great work!Β Β
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Thanks for the tutorial, I referenced it for this piece and enjoyed it / learned from you immensely: [link]
Do you have any restrictions on the usage of the textures or design in terms of referencing or commercial purposes I should know about? Thanks man!
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Saw this on psdtuts+ and I must say, it's absolutely fantastic
I watched the speedart too, really impressive.
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I read somewhere that the gravitational shockwave the sun would make during expansion would actually just blow away the Earth several lightyears.
(Of course that would probably erase all life as well.)
Awesome work! The plasma has an incredible texture and the heat haze really gives this image a sense of power.
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The growth of the sun will take thousands of years to reach earth, its not a sudden event for us, we will see it coming for generations. Yet in the timeframe of the universe its just a millisecond.
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Ah yes, I forgot that a star only starts to expand gradually once it starts to run out of hydrogen, rather than it suddenly ballooning once the last atom is fused.
-Although that would be far more spectacular!
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I would love to see that, would be very cool (no irony intended) to see a rapidly ballooning sun :Γ
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Damn, you really couldn't have done this earlier when I was trying to figure out how to do flares like this could you!?
Excellent work man, makes my own sun pieces look pale in comparison!
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definitely going to check how you created the sun because I was trying to figure that out a while ago as well. Pretty amazing mate!
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That sun is fair impressive. Colors, texture, flares work really well together.
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you are being featured here [link]
great work
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Ed, DAMN MAN! This is fuckin AWESOME dude! You should be real proud of this, you were great before, but I really think you improved with these last one pieces man. Keep it up dude and don't be a stranger when your on msn and I'm online too.
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Last two pieces*
Damn my terrible typing!
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Silly future humans - leave it to us to leave evacuation right to the last second instead of millions of years ago when the first signs probably started 
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HAHAHA your take its always cool man, hope you are doing great
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oh, that's fantastic man, those fleeing space arks makes it complete!
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hey Ed, I just saw the steps of this, tomorrow I'm going to read the whole tutorial, but wow, you're amazing.. brilliant execution, really. made me think about how little I know about photoshop and the newbie I am with it.
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Great man hope you enjoy it
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