I am looking for realistic star burst brush for retouching jewellery and crystals in fashion phtotos. Anywhere I can find them to download? : :question: Thanks in advance.

Take a look at this thread see if it is any help to you

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-retouching/14534-how-do-i-make-sparkel-ex-weddingring.html


Palms

thanks palms1 :happy: I have downloaded the badsstars brushes. I have used it on a blank layer on top and applied Gaussian blur. Otherwise it looks very faked using the brush on its own. Any other cool suggestion would be welcomed.

In Photoshop CS2 (I don't know about other versions), if you load the basic brushes (called basic brushes as a separate brush set), you have small starburst which is nice and irregular

Hey there,

If you could post a sample of what you mean, we can probably help you out quicker/better.

thanks. Cassidy, the irregular star brush is not on my CS-2 basic brush menu . Here I used badsstars brush with Gaussian blur radius of 0.6 because starburst in real life seems to have slight halo around it. Mmm maybe there is better way? :square:

Singlo,

Maybe my brush set was renamed or something, but I found the same brush by loading Assorted Brushes, known as Starburst - Small

again dont know if this is any use to you, the link to karls brushes is on Flora's post just above babstars

Palms

thanks palms :happy: Karl's brush looks promising. I thought of one way of making it more realistic:

Apply all stars on a blank layer ,
Duplicate this layer and apply guassian blur on it.
Reduce the opacity of the duplicate layer on top until it shows soft edges around the stars. I am yet to try out though :blank:

The other random thought is to find a really realistic star burst in a real photo and extract it using mask or extraction in CS2. Then soften the edges and make it to as a customer brush.