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Super Star
Super Star leaves its predecessor in the dust, adding new controls for curved sides and gaps, and tip flattening. These options allow you to create many new shapes, including gears, flowers, spirographs and more. Super Star also provides new color management tools for tinting your fancy new shapes. Super Star includes a color gradient editor for fancy work and options for radiating colors from the edge or center of your stars.
Settings
Tab
See Using Settings for
more information.
Basic Tab
In-preview Radius and Orientation Controls
By clicking the arrow button above the preview window , you enable an in-preview control that offers click-and-drag control over Orientation and Radius.

Place your cursor over the control point and drag it to rotate and resize your star.
Create
Output In New Layer Above Current
Creates a layer above the working layer (in Photoshop and Elements only)
and renders the effect to it. This feature allows you to view, edit, or
turn off the effect without affecting the original layer.
If you switch filters from within a filter window, the new layer feature
will be disabled in the filter you've switched to. If you want to apply
a filter in a new layer, make sure you start with the filter you plan
to apply.
Create Output In New Layer Above Current is unavailable when recording
actions in Photoshop. Clear this checkbox when recording actions.
Star
Type
- Classic—Disables
all advanced controls and creates only symmetrical geometric shapes.
- Curvy—Adds
curves to uniform geometric shapes.
- Irregular—Renders
irregular spires and curves in shapes.

Left
to right: examples of Classic, Curvy and Irregular
stars.
Radius
Controls the size of the star.
Orientation
Rotates
the star. Click and drag within the control box to change the direction,
or enter a value between 0 and 360 degrees.
Number
of Sides
Selects
the number of spikes in your star.
Indentation
Controls
the length of the spikes.
Side
Bulge
Adds
bulging curves or indentations to the sides of spikes.

Left
to right: increasing Side Bulge.
Flatten
Tips
Controls the
amount that spike tips are squared off.
Gap
Controls
the width of the gap between the bases of spikes.
Spike
Irregularity
Randomizes
the lengths of spikes and the angles at which they grow outward.
Alternating
Spikes
Creates
spikes of alternating lengths. Higher values increase the difference in
lengths.

Left
to right: Alternating Spikes.
Random Seed
Controls
the random elements of this filter. Click it until you get a result you
like.
Colors
Tab
Single
Color
Chooses a single color for your star and disables the Gradient controls.
Star Color—Choose any color for the bevel. For more information on selecting colors, see Color Selection Tools.
Gradient
For more information on using gradients, see Using the Gradient Editor.
Radiate from Center
Select this option to make gradients expand radially from the center of the star rather than adhering to the shape of the star.

Left: Radiate from Center disabled. Right: enabled. Overall Opacity
Controls the transparency of the star. Low values yield a more transparent object. Underlying images remain more visible. Higher values reduce the visibility of underlying images.
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