How to make a basic space background in Photoshop CS6

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Press Command+N(Ctrl on windows) to create a new Photoshop file to your preferred dimensions, leave all settings as defaults, 640x480 is used in the example here

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Click on the colour squares to set your foreground and background colours. The square upfront is foreground, set that to a colour you prefer in your background as space dust, dark blue is used here. Set the background, by selecting the square in the back, as black.

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Go to the menubar at the top, select filter, then render, then clouds, this will render clouds of a mixture of the two colours

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Go to the menubar at the top, select filter, then render, then difference clouds to render clouds of the inverse colours

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Go to the menubar at the top, select filter, then noise, then add noise, this will act as stars in space

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Set the noise level to your preference, 10% is used here. Select gaussian, then monochromatic. Gaussian makes it more random, and monochromatic provides you with only white stars

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Press Command+L to bring up the level menus. Move the first two arrows around to find your preferred levels of noise and darkness

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