Nice Planet

I think I'm getting good at making these relatively quickly. The trick is to render clouds with black and white, posterize them, pick which color will be the land and which will be the ocean (black or white), and then color the continents in a lighter shade of blue than the oceans, blur them, mix the lighter blue in with the oceans to create shallow-looking water, and make sure to mix brown and green for the continent colors. And of course, use shape3D, add a layer of black with some colorless noise for the stars, and a colored circle in a layer behind the planet with a Gaussian blur for the atmospheric glow.

Of course, I skipped some steps for the clouds this time, opting only to use a simple cloud function with the primary color as white and the secondary "color" as transparent. I suppose If I want to have ice caps, I'll have to color those areas in manually.

And I skipped the lighting on this one. That said, the base image for this one (the flat map) is twice the size of the other hospitable planets I've made (this one is 1600 x 1200).

EDIT: Does anyone think this could use a thicker-looking atmosphere?