Inventing Custom Starbursts

1. crisderaud27 July 2011, 13:30 GMT +02:00

You don't have to settle for the ordinary, even when it comes to creating a starburst in Illustrator. In fact, this week Deke shows you two techniques for giving your stellar compositions a customized effect in this single movie. In the first example, you'll start with a simple star-shaped path, and then use such unintuitively named features as Roughen and Pucker, in order to create a celestial body to contend with. And even better, these are dynamic effects that you can assess and adjust to your own taste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdUaKXoVPo&feature=player_embedded