http://youtu.be/9TVQvA4IDy4
Thank you for commenting, rating and subbing, I really appriciate it. This is Krome727’s request. I learned this technique from Gimptutorials.com.
mikethedj4 brought it to my attention that he did this tutorial for photoshop first. Sorry mike, I was not aware.
His channel can be found here: where you can find the photoshop tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mikethedj4
I learned this technique from here:
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/exploding-planet.html
It wasn’t in video form, so I decided to convert it.