starburst-type effect with moving trails

[John Rofrano]

ParticleIllusion comes to mind here. It’s an incredibly good particle generator which you’ll use again and again for all sorts of things. You can pick up particleIllusion SE for only $99. The full version is $389.

Another idea is to somehow use Pixelan Creative Ease Step Motion 2. This creates ghosts trails of moving images. You would have to move the star to make the trail so this might not work as well as a particle generator that can stay in one place and emit a trail of stars.

~jr

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[Tom Heine]

I’m just a beginner myself – so maybe I should not respond to this…
because the only thing I could now think of is

– making an image (in Photoshop) that has a considerable width (say 30cm’s)
– adding the trails (in wave-form so you got movement) and then
– pan across that image

when coming to the end of the image you would want to make a (smooth) transition with the same image (repeating itself)… or just put it “back-to-back” if the transition shows… way of doing that could be solved by reflecting the image in Ps on itself (errm “plaing around with horizontal/ vertical reflection that is ;o))

Other than that it would be (maybe only simple) masking issue and – as I said – I’m only a beginner myself…

I’ll keep watching this thread ;o)

Hope that helped for now :o)

[Stewart Bourke]

Folks,

Many thanks for the replies. Particleillusion is amazing – and a great source of inspiration – I have also been trying the overlapping suggestion with a few different effects – thanks again for the responses…

Stewart Bourke

[Tom Heine]

:o))) post a link ;o))))