Title: Starburst Effect
Yorrick - May 8, 2005 08:14 PM (GMT)
Ok, I was insanely bored today so I decided to make a tutorial for you guys because I'm that bored. It's not real useful for sigs but it's decent effect. Here I go...
1. Start out with a 400x400 white canvas.
2. Now fill the background with black.
3. Ok, now go into Filter>Render>Lens Flare. Center the lens flare as much as possible. Use the 50-300mm Zoom with 125% Brightness. Repeat this step four times for a total of 5 lens flares. It now should look something like this.
4. Now use Filter>Distort>Spherize with Amount:100% and Mode: Normal. Now it should look something along the lines of this:
5. Head up to Filters and use Filter>Sketch>Chrome with these settings: Detail: 10 Smoothness: 0
6. Now use Filter> Render> Lighting Effects with these settings:
And now it should look like this:
7. Now I reccomend using a color balance for some flash (ctrl+ B). I just messed around until I found something I liked like this:
8. Now use the ellpitical marquee tool. Hold Shift while doing it to make a perfect circle and encompass the bright area in the middle.
9. Now right click on the area and click Select Inverse.
10. Now use Filter> Blur> Radial Blur and use these settings:
11. Now simply deselect and voila!
Like I said, I know it's not useful for sigs and such but I was bored and I wanted to try out an in-depth tutorial on you guys. Hope you like it!
P.S. Could someone submit this to good-tutorials for me? I tried but it won't work. Thanks!
1. Start out with a 400x400 white canvas.
2. Now fill the background with black.
3. Ok, now go into Filter>Render>Lens Flare. Center the lens flare as much as possible. Use the 50-300mm Zoom with 125% Brightness. Repeat this step four times for a total of 5 lens flares. It now should look something like this.
4. Now use Filter>Distort>Spherize with Amount:100% and Mode: Normal. Now it should look something along the lines of this:
5. Head up to Filters and use Filter>Sketch>Chrome with these settings: Detail: 10 Smoothness: 0
6. Now use Filter> Render> Lighting Effects with these settings:
And now it should look like this:
7. Now I reccomend using a color balance for some flash (ctrl+ B). I just messed around until I found something I liked like this:
8. Now use the ellpitical marquee tool. Hold Shift while doing it to make a perfect circle and encompass the bright area in the middle.
9. Now right click on the area and click Select Inverse.
10. Now use Filter> Blur> Radial Blur and use these settings:
11. Now simply deselect and voila!
Like I said, I know it's not useful for sigs and such but I was bored and I wanted to try out an in-depth tutorial on you guys. Hope you like it!
P.S. Could someone submit this to good-tutorials for me? I tried but it won't work. Thanks!
Winters - May 8, 2005 09:15 PM (GMT)
Ill submit it ;)
Yorrick - May 8, 2005 09:17 PM (GMT)
Thank you!
P.S. I would also appreciate it if you would rank the tutorial on an x/10 basis. By this I mean the quality of the tutorial, not the actual outcome.
P.S. I would also appreciate it if you would rank the tutorial on an x/10 basis. By this I mean the quality of the tutorial, not the actual outcome.
Winters - May 8, 2005 09:38 PM (GMT)
Well it's nicely written and i like the picture :)
The outcome is cool too, 9/10 :D
The outcome is cool too, 9/10 :D
Yorrick - May 8, 2005 11:11 PM (GMT)
Wow, thank you!
aji - May 13, 2005 07:33 PM (GMT)
Much pictures, pretty detailed; 8½/10
HeadCase - May 20, 2005 08:05 AM (GMT)
Hi, I find this tutorial extremely helpful. I found it on www.good-tutorials.com. I plan on using this in a logo I'm making a for company. However I am having a slight problem. On step 3, I am trying to do the Filter>Render>Lens Flare, and I can't figure out why the option is grayed out in the menu :angry: (very frusteratin). I have tried many times repeatedly following the steps, only to no avail. Could someone please help me here. Thanks.
ctznfish - May 20, 2005 03:07 PM (GMT)
Make sure you are set to RGB mode when you open up your new document
Andreq - May 24, 2005 01:16 AM (GMT)
How do u adjust the color? And what do i right click with (marquee?) to select inverse?