Can anyone help me with blending these two images together for part of a skybox?

[MusicForThePiano]

Hey, I really need some help here, I'm trying to make a new yavin IV skybox and I found the perfect jungle template. I also found a good image of a red gas giant planet that will stand in for the yavin planet, from the perspective of being on the fourth moon.

 

I tried to cut the planet out to fit above the treeline in GIMP but the issue is that there are clouds in the atmosphere, which would not be behind a planet, so I don't know how to get the image so that the planet can be seen through the clouds. Can anyone help me with this?

 

Here is the jungle backdrop that i want to superimpose the planet in the background of:

 

 

and here is the still of the red gas giant:

 

[MusicForThePiano]

Oh and not the whole planet, just like the upper half cut to fit behind the ridgeline towards the right side of the box, so yes the planet will be shrunken when superimposed onto the jungle backdrop

[Boothand]

Uhh. I don't know. I don't know Star Wars... Not sure what size, or if realistic enough. I'm sure this is freaking huge compared to what it should be. Tried to make it sort of obscured by atmosphere, and clouds.

 

[JAWSFreelao]

I would turn down the opacity of the planet and then copy+paste the planet, give it motion blur, and use it almost as a glow behind the clouds

[MusicForThePiano]

Damn you beat me to it lol, I just spent a whole hour doing GIMP blending and still couldn't get it to be as nice as that!, hey JAWS can you take what he did and do what you said should be done to it?

[JAWSFreelao]

This is my attempt thrown together.

[MusicForThePiano]

Very nice man, thanks a bunch!  You got the size more accurate than Boothand, but they're both great interpretations.The only thing I would try to add would be to somehow get it behind the cloud layer, it's not easily possible given the cloudy nature of the background, but everytime I try it in GIMP it just either makes it transparent or puts fog renders on it that don't look like part of the original background.

[Boothand]

More like JAWS' scale:

 

 

 

 

 

With mysterious glow thing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSD file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/litpmamd3bf8yy8/yavinthing.psd?dl=0

[Ramikad]

Size can vary a lot depending on the distance. I'm not aware of any type of orbiting distance from Yavin 4, but as a reference, here is the apparent size of Jupiter as seen from the surface of the main moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto:

 

Io:

 

 

 

Europa:

 

 

 

Ganymede:

 

 

 

Callisto:

 

 

 

Canonically Yavin is about 1/3 bigger than Jupiter, so you could scale it up accordingly. Being the fourth moon, Yavin 4 could potentially be quite "far" from the planet.

[AshuraDX]

@@MusicForThePiano May I play too ?


If you guys are interested - here's my PSD file

 

I can break it down in a post here if you guys want me to.