Image preview: Freebies: High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)

Freebies: High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)

July 19th 2008
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by Tom

I figured that it was about time for PSDFAN’s first freebie giveaway! I’ve created a ’sunburst set’ offering a variety of sunburst images to use in your designs.

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Designing Shouldn’t be a Hassle

Sunbursts are a really popular element in modern design, so it always amazes me how hard it is to find a suitable and free sunburst image to use in your designs. Not only is it hard to find a sunburst image, but when you do there is usually something wrong with it. Either there are too many ‘rays’, or too few, the image is too small, there isn’t a .psd file offered so any effects/filters you apply to the image will also effect the background, and so on…. All of this means more work for YOU, the designer.

That’s why I’ve come up with a simple set of sunburst images to help you (and me!), save some time browsing stock image sites. This set is not only offered free, but at HIGH RES (all images are over 1000px X 1000px in dimension), with a varied number of rays (you will see below the set includes an image with 10 rays, 20 rays and 40 rays). Best of all the images are available for download from their original .psd files, so you can forget about that annoying background and copy/paste your sunbursts into whatever document you like in a matter of seconds!

10 Ray Sunburst:

sunburst10thumb Freebies: High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)

20 Ray Sunburst:

sunburst20thumb Freebies: High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)

40 Ray Sunburst:

sunburst40thumb Freebies: High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)

It’s as Easy as ‘Gradient Overlay’!

Seeing as the sunbursts in these .psd files are separate from their backgrounds it’s as easy as applying a filter or gradient overlay to achieve some really nice effects!

sunburstexample Freebies: High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)

You can Download the .ZIP file containing all 3 sunburst images by clicking here…

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About the Author: Tom is the founder of PSDFAN. He loves writing tutorials, learning more about design and interacting with the community. On a more interesting note he can also play guitar hero drunk with his teeth.

26 Awesome Comments: Leave Your Comment

  1. beets 19th July 2008

    yay! freebies! :D

    thanks Tom, and good job doing them as seperate layers… nice touch. :)

  2. twopo 19th July 2008

    Great Tom

  3. User GravatarTom 19th July 2008

    No problem guys :) The separate layers thing is probably the most useful aspect, I’m personally really sick of having to cut out stock images such as these ones.

    By the way feel free to Digg/Stumble at your discretion ;)

  4. Randomness 20th July 2008

    Woot! Thanks man. Free (useful) stuff is always awesome…but where is the tutorial on how to make sunbursts ;)

  5. User GravatarTom 20th July 2008

    I actually used the technique from my music wallpaper tut, where I just created one segment, then duplicated it and rotated it around a middle point many times.

  6. beets 21st July 2008

    you can also make a bunch of vertical bars and apply Distort > Polar Coordinates. ;)

  7. User GravatarTom 23rd July 2008

    Thanks beets! This is what this site is really about, I want to learn stuff from my visitors as much as writing tutorials for them :) That would have been a big time saver for me.

  8. Britt 30th July 2008

    Wow, thank you so much. I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for such a long time!

    Great site by the way, I found you through a link to your laptop ad tutorial from another blog on DesignFloat. Glad I found you.

  9. User GravatarTom 30th July 2008

    No problem Britt! I’m glad that you’re enjoying the site, I should be posting another set of freebies in the next couple of days.

  10. User GravatarAlen 3rd August 2008

    Very nice. Thanks.

  11. User GravatarTom 4th August 2008

    Cheers Alen :)

  12. Cindy 15th August 2008

    These are awesome! Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing your designs!

  13. User GravatarAsuka 6th September 2008

    That rocks! I love “starburts” shapes and can’t make theme. this is great.

  14. User GravatarTom 12th September 2008

    Thanks for the support guys, I’m glad that you liked them!

  15. User GravatarDanh ba web 2.0 19th September 2008

    Great. Thanks for share !

  16. explorerpro 16th October 2008

    mediafire page error

  17. User GravatarTom 18th October 2008

    ExplorerPro: I’m not getting that problem, is anyone else?

  18. User Gravatarsundownproject 12th November 2008

    Thanks. Really handy for future projects.

  19. User GravatarTom 12th November 2008

    No problem Sundownproject, I’ve found them very useful myself :)

  20. User Gravatarjamie 10th January 2009

    cheers man….these will help…also got fed up with cutting out : )

  21. User GravatarJohn 17th January 2009

    Hi
    Thanks for these will come in handy
    Regards
    John

  22. User GravatarCreate a Mock-Retro Poster Concept 24th January 2009

    [...] I grab a sunburst graphic from my Free Sunbursts Set and paste it onto a new layer above my typewriter layer. Then I set the layer blend mode to [...]

  23. User GravatarRahul 19th March 2009

    Nice Sunbursts. This will really come in handy for me.

  24. intofotos 5th May 2009

    Thanks so much for these. Solved my problem and for that I am truly grateful. Appreciate your generosity.

  25. User GravatarFaisal Mohammad 14th June 2009

    Thanks buddy!

  26. User Gravataroes tsetnoc 19th November 2009

    the sunburst effects are easy to understand and looks very cool and wonderful.

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