all I'm going to do is draw some mountains in and add some huge chunks of light into the sky, all eminating from the moon.

And that's about it. I just did a few more touch up bits here and there and added a small shine on the lense. The mountains consist of a new layer with blue mountains drawn in, then I added another adjustment layer that only effected the mountains, set it at -100 and cut away at the top of it and filled it in with a grey colour.

Doop doop! The colours are a little messed up from being saved as a GIF

One other little tid bit on Photoshop, I highly suggest that just because you can add lights in Photoshop, DON'T. They don't make a good looking scene and it comes out looking really bad. Let me teach by example:

ugly

pretty!

I feel that the hand drawn one is MUCH better than the one using a filter.

Always try and remember your light source. Light comes from somewhere, be it a window or a lamp or just some spot in the room, light comes from that point.

You can even use this technique to redraw over ripped backrounds or objects. It would make your game look better if all the art seemed to come from your hand and not a wall you drew with a Full Throttle door pasted on it. Just trace that door and people won't even know... What ever you need to do to get the picture to look like how you want it, doesn't matter. You can scan pictures out of magazines and trace those images, find a picture of a statue online and trace it and colour it and people will think you drew it completely by yourself. People don't need to know the process that went in to the drawing, just that the drawing was completed and looks nice.

I think that is all. If there is a better way to do all of this than feel free to email me or write your own tutorial. I hope you found this useable. eric out