Gas giant unbound

[Nu Zalem]

I, Nu Zalem/Antares, am proud to announce that I have finally finished my second planet - a gas giant - after much time, trial, and error. This planet is free for all to use so long as I get the credit. I cannot stress this enough. To be honest, I'm having a hard time describing how I feel about this...I'm quite overjoyed to have finally finished this. It has been a great step in Photoshop skill progression for me however it has also been tiring, daunting, challenging, infuriating, repetitive, so on and so forth.

I am probably not going to make another gas giant for a long while, but I am not by any means done making space art or any other art material whether it be in Photoshop or otherwise. In any case, below is the link for you all to view the planet. It is rendered in 4096x4096 resolution via Blender. The texture itself was made in 8192x4096 resolution at 300dpi via Photoshop. It is comprised of a multitude of cloud and turbulence layers...a good number of you on IRC have seen the layers I used for the creation of the planet.

As always, I welcome comments/constructive criticism from everyone. Feed is important. Below is the link.

[spoiler]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18511228/v/gas-giant.png[/spoiler]

Credits:
I'd like to personally thank the following:

HerraTohtori, Kyad, Turambar_BladeII, BlasterNT, Lt.CannonFodder, and that_guy_melvin from Hard-Light Productions and its respective IRC channel (hard-light.net)

MetroidMst, Grime, Digital Mantra, itsblah, Flamestar666, and ProjectXVIII of Metroid Construction

Black Telomeres, Mimeblade, Ja-Bo, and mindwhipsliver from my AIM buddy list

pritteboy from Deviant Art

Kom, Zergling, Skwirl, and Chizauri of the Doom channel in Ventrilo.

Lastly, I'd like to thank YOU the viewer of this topic for taking the time to look at this topic and see my work. I feel elated that you would do such a thing. I hope my works inspire you to create material of your own if you aren't doing so already and share them. Live long and prosper. Long live creativity and creative thinking.