So I made my 1st Photoshop planet, hoping to make myself a snazy background, well I like how it turned out, but what do u all think?

The background is one image with a lens flare effect added

the planet is a circle of a pattern I found online modified with all sorts of effects.

It looks great as my background btw.

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Looks better than Philadelphia did in Game 1 (sorry that was mean)

Looks nice man, though your world needs some clouds :)

Had some heavy blur on the edges so it doesn't feel dislocated from the overall scenario.

Also, you may want to drop a little shadowing effect to the right on the shadow stripe you made.

Those 2 hints, will improve greatly your planet =P

Next stop, is to make moons.