HOW TO MAKE A SUNBURST WITH GIMP (This tute is all one layer)

This tutorial was made from the Video version seen below.
How to make a sunburst with GIMP

Blur version (seen in step 11)


Non blur version



OK, start with

1. File | New | Use any size you like, I used 800x800

2. On your colors dialog, change foreground color to white (ffffff) and background color to blue (0012fb)

3. Click on blend tool Shape | Radial Drag gradient from center to any corner.

4. Filters | Noise | RGB Noise, Deselect Independent RGB, Move sliders to the right 64 | 64 | 64 OK

5. Filters | Blur | Motion Blur, Blur type, Zoom, Move top slider halfway to 122 OK (This step takes a while)

6. Select ellipse tool make circle around 628 x 628 in size.

7. Feather selection 400 pixels

8. edit | fill with FG color (white) (SELECT NONE)

9. Filters | Enhance | Unsharp Mask (default settings) OK

10. Repeat step 9 ( 3 times.)

11. (Optional) Filters | blur | Gaussian Blur | Horizontal10 | Vertical 10, OK

Good tutorial very nice effect it's very bright

Thank you Jamie, nice job, yes it does kinda hurt the eyes. I guess it would be nice done in a night sky color too.
thanks for doing my tutorial

You're welcome. I forgot to unlick the independant rpg thing so here is it with that unchecked.

I guess you could do it with or without unchecking that, they both look the same to me.

Nice tutorial Molly.

Nice outcome bkh I like that tint of yellow in there.

OK, just tried this and mine looks wrong. I'm trying to upload it but the upload is not doing anything. I think I am not sure exactly how to do the feather at 400 px part (I know how to feather the selection but a 400 px feather on a 600 px selection?), but if I can ever get GC to upload it you can see how odd the center looks and maybe see where I went wrong!

K, as often happens, the upload finally went through, unbeknownst to me, and I tried to upload it again and it tells me that it's already there...so I luckily had written my "number" down and can manually put in the url, argh.

Once you make your ellipse, you will have a selection, then go to select > feather and take out what is there and put in 400 pixels, then Ok, then edit > fill with white > select none

yes, that is what I did, but mine looks all wrong.
OH wait, after I filled in the 400 for the feather, I did bucket fill with the white, I did not go edit, fill.

***that was it, much better now. I never realized that the edit/fill was different than bucket fill!

There ya go

Nice Tut Molly, simple ,yet effective.
I went a step further to show that more can be done with the concept of the SunBurst
The opposing drop shadows are done by splitting the text and making the drop shadows above and below appear to be away from the centre of the sun.

That is very effective Wbool, love what you did with the text.
Thanks for doing my tutorial.

Just a little hit of what I do 2-ton.
I never use the bucket fill. I just drag the color into the selection, or if I am using a pattern, I drag it from the patterns dialogue into the selection. Faster and less clicks.

Nice one Molly. Here's my go at it.

g-rate Wallace,

don't know where you get them but they sure are cute.

I get them from the DA PLZ Database, that one came for here ... http://helpplz.info/plz/search/cutedance and colored it purple.
Sorry but the PLZ Database no longer exists.