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How to create this burst effect

How do u go about creating this effect? The startburst type effect on this flyer

http://www.clubflyers.com/cgi-bin/flyer_archive/imageFo ... g&img=64&tt=

I've tried about 4 different tutorials and none of them are like this one. I wanna make it..

http://www.switchdesigns.net/?id=eburst

Heres an option for you to try.

1. Create a new empty layer
2. Activate the Gradient Tool (G)
3. Click on the Gradient Preset Editor icon up on the Options Bar.
4. In the middle of the Gradient Editor Control panel, change the 'Gradient Type' from 'Solid' to 'Noise'.
5. After that change, to the lower right of the same Gradient Editor, tick 'Add Transparency'.
Then OK to exit the Gradient Editor.
6. Back to the Options Bar and select the 'Angle Gradient' style from among the 5 available icons.
7. Then click and drag on your layer (in doc window) to create the starbust effect.

heathrowe

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Make some noise, then get out your Select Single Row tool and click somewhere. Then stretch it out so you have a bucj of different shaded lines going vertically. Finally, Distort>Polar Coordinates>Recangular to Polar.

You should get the desired effect. Mess around with the amount of noise until you get what you want.

[EDIT] I assume you know how to fsck with the opacity and to set it to Lighten or whatever you need...

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wow thanks guys, all those ideas are pretty good, I guess I'll have to play with it to get the same effect eh

the easiest way would pobably to use a 3d program, create light and a star lens effect, it can then be rendered at any quality you want; colour, intensity, brightnes adjustable (some progs also have some extra settings).
couldnt get much simpler.

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I associate "3D program" with "omgomg i fail at life complicated"... But maybe that's just me. My only real experiance I have with 3D programs is puttering with my friend's brother's computer... Speaking of which, it's rather off-topic, but what would be the Photoshop equivilant of 3D rendering?

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i think you misunderstood me,
anyway, photoshop is a raster 2d prog, therefore it doesnt render anything.
3d pixel worlds arent really practical so 3d progs are vector based, the 2d equivalent of which would be a vector based design prog (eg illustrator, which can render things, allthough theres no button which says RENDER, because you're going to end up using it in a 2d format anyway, so when you print or export to a pixel format, it automatically renders your file)

sorry, i think i kinda hijacked the thread.

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Meh, he got his answer anyways. It's not like we didn't solve the problem...

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