More Starbursts Than You Can Shake a Stick At

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!

Select Filters > Sketch > Halftone Pattern.

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

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

Now we’ve just got to rotate the canvas…

Then apply Poalr Coordinates.

And there you have it! A filtered sunburst.

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

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!

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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. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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

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

   thanks
   Good tutorials

2. 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!
   =)

3. 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!

4. 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

5. 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!

6. 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!

7. 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!

8. 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

9. Emma on February 14th, 2008 at 7:46 am

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

10. 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

11. 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)

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

    Thank you , it is cool

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