I found an excellent site full of rendered art. It's a bit hard to navigate since it's all in Russian, but you can use Babblefish or Google to translate it if you're interested. It's @ http://render.ru. Here's a couple images that caught my attention:
Ok, so I decided to try another random Photoshop tutorial. This last one, called Aurora, involved a simply web page design. While not technically difficult, it did allow me to learn how to seamlessly incorporate tiled backgrounds with a title graphic. The link to my end product can be found here. Don't ask for a screenshot, I'm feeling lazy this time around. :)
Look at that, I managed to make my very first planet with Photoshop. Not too bad of a job, if I do say so myself. If you'd like to give it a try, I found the tutorial at this site. Pretty easy to follow, and looks damned cool. :)
This is what happens when computer nerds get bored. I found a "Comic Art Effect Tutorial" at MacMerc.com. It looks pretty good, although remember to use a fairly high resolution image. All the ones I used had been resized for the web, and didn't have as much detail as they could have. Anyway, if you have Photoshop, you should check it out.
