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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.

Starburst

Now select good ol’ Flower #5.

Starburst

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

Starburst

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

Starburst

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

Starburst

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.

Starburst

Grit your teeth and commit to the relationship.

Starburst

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

Starburst

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

Starburst

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

Starburst

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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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.

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

  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!

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