Posted: January 20, 2025 | Last updated: January 20, 2025 Photoshop CS5 tutorial showing how to create a colorful, retro starburst with a twinkling text effect.

The starburst effect can vary dramatically depending on the aperture blades in your lens. There are two key factors – if the blades are curved or straight.

In these supposedly insulating materials, electric currents start flowing. This effect, discovered by Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, is also called the Costa Ribeiro Effect.

How-To Creating starburst effects in photos By Heather Kelly SEP 30, 2009 5:44 am PDT ...