Just enjoy! Please comment and give feedback! Love or Favorite if you like it! Believe it or not, this was rendered at 10 samples! With compositing, I could add blurs and things like that to remove noise! This is a blue planet that I imagined. The planets surface was made in GIMP, and the atmosphere/hue was made in compositing. I also gave the stars and galaxies a bluish glow in compositing. The way I made the surface was by getting 3 textures from CG textures and overlaying them, changing the opacity and some hand painting (originally, the surface was pinkish peachish and white and gray, leaving me with the option of changing the colors with no hassle when I made it in gimp, but with a color ramp I changed the color to blue and white). I dragged image color node into a color ramp, multiplied it by 0.05 and then plugged it into the displacement box in the output for getting the bumps and ridges.
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