[Army Air Corps]

I also have Photoshop CS3 and would love some pointers.

[cripplecreek]

I learn a lot from tutorials.

30+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Space and Planets

photoshop Mosaic

Planets are actually pretty easy, the toughest thing I've found to do is to create a halfway realistic starfield. Once I have one I never let it go. Here's a real basic starfield I made if you want to keep it and use it to build on.

starfield