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Gary - Very nice, indeed. I missed that tutorial when I was looking for additional Christmas ornament reference material. I was searching for 'ball' or 'ornament' and not 'Holiday Tree Decoration"....

Just for fun, I bit the bullet and found a trial version of Photoshop 7 and went through the first 6 steps of the tutorial to produce the original lens flare and then the lens flare with polar...

Egg,

Not too far, it's just a little over a month away now. :eek:

And challenge us you have. You've captured the reflective-frostiness of that type of ornament nearly perfectly. The ribbon,...

Egg - handrawn beat me to posting the tutorial link. That's the very same Photoshop tutorial I was trying to follow sans lens flare filter and polar rectangular distortion filter. Thanks for the...

sledger,

Thanks for the lens flare links. Without realizing it, and without the stunning effect of either one (either), I actually incorporated a little of both techniques on my lens flares. I...

Excellent, Xcellent!

I ripped apart the xmb.xar file you provided and I must say that the way you created your ornaments is much simpler than mine. So much for trying to adapt a PS tutorial. Oh...

I found an old Photoshop tutorial while looking for something else on the internet. Since Christmas is coming, for those who elect to receive, I thought I'd give it a go.

I think it turned out...