Free star burst?

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Boiled Sweets (Posted 2006) [#1]

Hi, has anyone got any free images of starbursts like this... http://dev.boiledsweets.com/tmp/bigspark.bmp

sswift (Posted 2006) [#2]

http://www.seamlesstexturegenerator.com/misc/flares.zip

stayne (Posted 2006) [#3]

if you have photoshop just use the lensflare filter. duplicate the layer and mess with the layer properties (linear burn might work good) and gaussian blur. don't forget to change the levels to prevent the edges from going out too far.

Pongo (Posted 2006) [#4]

http://www.andimages.com/proofs/pongo/flarepack.zip here you go,... free for anything you wish to use them for. The flarepack has each of the flares in a seperate file. (.png format) edit: didn't even see sswift's link til just now, guess you probably don't need these. Oh well, a little more variety I guess.

Mustang (Posted 2006) [#5]

Here's three (variations) from me. Everyone can use these freely, both commercially and non-commercially:

Boiled Sweets (Posted 2006) [#6]

Can anyone please tell me exactly how these were created?

Mustang (Posted 2006) [#7]

Dunno about others but I made mine using PhotoShop CS2 (any older version would have been OK too) and lot's of sweat, basically. Smear tool was used extensively like gzillions of PS layers with varying blending modes... I also adjusted brightness / contrast and hue a lot, and did some levels / curves tweaking too. Sharpening and gaussian blur filters were handy too. Can't remember if I used radial motion blur but it can be a useful too in a case like this. Not exactly "exactly how" but it's impossible to do a "tutorial" because these come after lot of experimenting and playing around, for me at least.

t3K|Mac (Posted 2006) [#8]

i use photoshops rendering (lensflare) filter and tweak it a bit.

Pongo (Posted 2006) [#9]

For the set I posted above, I used a lens flare plug-in that I have. (Knoll light factory) Otherwise, it's pretty much what Mustang said,... lots of playing around with curves and layers. You can also create a nice starburst effect by making an image with vertical lines that are bright at the top and dark at the bottom, then convert the image to polar coordinates, and the vertical lines will be radial.