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I will be showing you the quickest way to create fast random stars using Transform Each.
1. Create background
Select the Rectangle Tool, and draw out the background. Go to layers to lock it to prevent selecting it.
2. Add some stars
Add a new layer above the background.Using the Star Tool, draw a few stars and fill it with different shades of grey.
3. Create a row of stars
Select all the stars and hold Alt/Option to drag a new copy beside it. Repeat it by pressing Ctrl+D/Command+D until you get a row of stars.
4. Fill the background with stars
Select the row of stars. Using the same method above we repeat it downwards until our background is filled with stars.
5. Create random stars
Go Object>Transform>Transform Each. Check the random option. Set both Scale (Horizontal and Vertical) the same value to make it proportion. Make sure the Scale is smaller to 50% to make it smaller. Select a random figure for move to make the stars offset it’s current position. Finally, Set Rotate to 360 to give it a random rotation. Now we have the image below.
6. Final touchup
Select all the stars and and Transform Again (Ctrl/Command+D) to repeat the random stars transformation until we achieve the effect we like.
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December 12th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Cool Tip~
December 19th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Thanks.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am
celestial sky! how lovely. thank you.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Reaper: You’re spot on. These are some beautiful “web 2.0″ stars
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January 10th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Very cool! Also works well with snow, confetti, etc. Thanks!!
February 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
neatness in Randomness
March 28th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Helpful tips. Thank you
March 28th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
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April 30th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Very useful tip. Better than using the symbol sprayer which is hard to control.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Thank you for sharing your knowledge - I’m a student, and I appreciate your time and effort. Thank you.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Cool. Thanks.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:27 am
it was confusing but i got it
October 9th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Thank you so much!! this was very straightforward, easy and I absolutely love the effect!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
simple tricks that give powerful solution.
thanks for the tutorial
November 5th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Thanks very much for this tutorial. I knew there had to be an easy way to make a starry sky, but couldn’t figure it out on my own. This is exactly what I was looking for!
November 5th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Very nice
November 24th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Awesome! This is perfect. So much better then the sprayer.