Easy retro sunburst in 8-ish steps (fireworks/PS tutorial)
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in Bryan's Blog
at 10:35AM on 03/20/2008
I was cruising around this morning and saw some guy's convoluted way of making a retro sunburst effect, so I'm posting this method, which is a zillion times easier.
1. Draw a tall rectangle and use the subselect tool to delete a point.
2. Add some guides to the far ends of the shape so you can figure out where the center is. Add a center guide to whatever coordinate you calculate your center to be.
3. I like to check myself by looking at the top and drawing a square on either side. If the square fits in both places, then it's centered correctly.
4. Next, rotate the triangle 180 and move it up so the points are just touching.
5. Copy & Paste both triangles, then rotate them together by 90 degrees.
6. Copy & paste all four triangles and rotate them together by 15 degrees. You should experiment with the number of degrees to use. 15 gave me the spacing I was looking for.
7. Copy & paste the moved triangles, then rotate again, and again, until you are out of room. After you rotate, the ones you just moved will still be selected, so just cmd + c, cmd + v, cmd + shift + t, enter a bunch of times. 
8.Finished sunbursty thing.
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