More Starbursts Than You Can Shake a Stick At

The Intuitive Way

Although this method takes a little more time, I like it when I need something specific. This lets you control everything - from your line widths to the number you have, even the kinds of colours. This is also the way most people would approach making a starburst, but I think there’s a few tips in here that will help you make a nice one!

Create a background and new blank layer.

Select View > Rulers

Making sure your background layer is selected, drag down a guideline from the top ruler until it snaps to the middle.

Do the same vertically.

You can see that this now gives us a marked middle for our starburst. So grab the pen tool…

And start drawing your starbursts from the middle!

You could apply colour directly to the shape, or using blending options.

I would recommend putting this new shape layer in its own folder. Devote a different layer to each colour to help keep things organized.

Continue drawing more bursts.

Want more colours? Add a new folder and draw them in!

This is what I had at the end, using three different colours and varying widths:

There, I hope this tut was helpful to you, and that you’re not sick of starbursts now.

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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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