<Return to the Table of Contents> 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. <Return to the Table of Contents>