Week of Feb. 4th–8th

This week, I started creating a galaxy photo to use in other works. Within this project, I am only going to use my own photos, so I am trying to create my own outer space design. I started with a photo of the daytime sky, for a bit of gradient:

I took out the trees and houses, then started to darken the sky. Now I have this background to start building a galaxy on:

Next week, I plan to start putting the galaxy shape together.