More Starbursts Than You Can Shake a Stick At

How Does Your Starburst Grow?

With alt and shift
and shapes adrift
and points all in a row

This actually uses the same technique as the one found in my Geometric Shapes Tutorial.

Start by opening up the Nature Collection in shapes.

Now select good ol’ Flower #5.

Drag it out on your canvas. Hold down Shift to keep your flower proportionate!

Now to apply the green thumb - grab the Direct Selection Tool.

Drag a square around the INSIDE points. If you missed one, hold down shift and select it, you need to grab em all!

Great, now hit up Ctrl-T to transform your points. Grab the corned handle and bring the points into the middle while holding down Shift + Alt.

Grit your teeth and commit to the relationship.

Now we have to make the starburst larger. Grab the move tool. Make sure Show Bounding Box is selected.

Select your starburst and grab a corner point. Holding down Shift + Alt again, drag out that flower!

And you’re done! Here I’ve added a slight radial gradient, a background, and a hyperkinetic lagamorph.

I give credit to SlickTutorials for actually being the first to stumble across this method before I figured it out - his tutorial has a few extra steps on how to transform this into a starburst. I highly recommend checking it out!

Had enough of shapes? Head on over to the next page to learn how to make starbursts using Filter Power™.

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14 Responses to “More Starbursts Than You Can Shake a Stick At”

koca kafalar on October 31st, 2007 at 7:02 am

thanks
Good tutorials
3dom on December 3rd, 2007 at 3:36 pm

So far it is the best starburst tutorial I’ve found. Glad you restored it after site crash. And thanks!
=)
Grateful on December 4th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

This tutorial saved me hours of work. I needed to make a round striped border and this did it in minutes. Thanks!
vale on January 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

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
Minty Ferret on January 28th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

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!
jules on January 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am

Vale & Minty Ferret - The Registration shape is under Symbols in the Custom Shapes. I found it by accident. Hope this helps! Btw…Great tutorial!
Minty Ferret on January 29th, 2008 at 3:21 am

Oh jules! You’re right! I guess I made a mistake in the tutorial, thanks so much for pointing that out. I’ll have to fix that when I get a chance. Glad you liked it!
vale on February 6th, 2008 at 9:51 am

thank you sooo much Jules!I just found it and everything’s fine now!thank again for helping
Emma on February 14th, 2008 at 7:46 am

oh that’s ok, I figured it out. hehe. thank you for the tutorial
junaid on February 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

i tryed to find this tool, the registration 2, but i still cant find it, wheres SYMBOLs ?
plz reply soon
Minty Ferret on February 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

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)
Sampigeo on April 6th, 2008 at 2:27 am

Thank you , it is cool
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