So far it is the best starburst tutorial …

Filter Power™

Set your foreground and background to two different colours. As you probably guessed, they will make up the different colours of your starburst!

Starburst

Select Filters > Sketch > Halftone Pattern.

Starburst

Set Contrast to 50 and pick a size. I went with 5 here.

Starburst

Click OK. This is what you should have on your canvas.

Starburst

Now we’ve just got to rotate the canvas…

Starburst

Starburst

Then apply Poalr Coordinates.

Starburst

Starburst

And there you have it! A filtered sunburst.

Starburst

And with a simple added shape, it’s now representative of the Land of the Rising Sun. :)

Starburst

All these starbursts have been great so far, but what if you need something specific? Perhaps you want to control the lines widths, or even have multiple colours. There’s a way to do that too, visit the last and final page!

This entry was written by Minty Ferret on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 10:18 pm and is filed under Photoshop Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

19 Responses to “So far it is the best starburst tutorial …”

  1. thanks
    Good tutorials ;)

  2. So far it is the best starburst tutorial I’ve found. Glad you restored it after site crash. And thanks!
    =)

  3. This tutorial saved me hours of work. I needed to make a round striped border and this did it in minutes. Thanks!

  4. Please can someone help me with registration target shape 2?:(
    I have photoshop cs3 but can’t find this shape at all
    thanks so much

  5. Hi Vale – did you make sure to load up the Shapes folder? (check above). The target shape should look like a circle, not like a starburst at all. If you still need help finding it, feel free to take a screenshot of your work area and I’ll see what I can do!

  6. Vale & Minty Ferret – The Registration shape is under Symbols in the Custom Shapes. I found it by accident. Hope this helps! Btw…Great tutorial!

  7. Oh jules! You’re right! I guess I made a mistake in the tutorial, thanks so much for pointing that out. :D I’ll have to fix that when I get a chance. Glad you liked it!

  8. thank you sooo much Jules!I just found it and everything’s fine now!thank again for helping :)

  9. oh that’s ok, I figured it out. hehe. thank you for the tutorial

  10. i tryed to find this tool, the registration 2, but i still cant find it, wheres SYMBOLs ?
    plz reply soon

  11. I haven’t had the time to add in the extra screenshot – check it out here:
    http://mintyferret.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/starburst2.gif

    (Instead of choosing Shapes, choose Symbols)

  12. Thank you , it is cool

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  15. How did you get the dark blue middle. I can not get it to work.

  16. I filled in a dark blue background, then added a radial gradient to the starburst with one of the colours being the same hue as the dark blue background.

  17. Thanks you very much. It is cool and wonderful !

  18. I like your sense of humor in your tutorial.
    Nice!

  19. Thank you so much for this, I really appreciate it!