The Christmas Star

Lately I haven't had much time for creativity besides when I get to create a logo at the printshop. The only other thing I really do is make slides and backgrounds for church. I want more than just a gradient. I kind of like the slide backgrounds to look like stage lighting. I usually start with a blank photoshop document, and by just using solid colors, gradients, and filters (and creative blending), I can get some cool looking backgrounds that kind of look like the Windows Vista startup screen or the Mac standard background (the purple spacey thing).

I made one the other day for our young adults' group meeting, and figured it would maybe work for a song background with some tweaking.

Well, I was just making a slide for the Christmas Eve service and I wanted to find a picture of the Christmas star. So I googled "Christmas Star" and didn't find anything I liked. I did find this:



So, I tweaked what I had made in photoshop to give it the traditional Christmas star shape at the center of the light source. I think this might be more what it would look like if you were in outer space near the Christmas star and could see the swirling gas clouds around whatever the light source was.