If you do not see the play icon: go to the top of your screen and click WINDOW > ACTIONS and the actions panel will appear. Lets make it easy on ourselves once again and create a custom Photoshop action!Д¬lick the play button to open your actions panel. Just like before, we will be applying this same effect onto our image 30-80 times. This process is extremely similar to the one outlined in the Zoom Effect, with a few subtle differences.

The next star trail up is called the Vortex Effect! Rather than zooming into our stars we are now rotating our stars around a singular point. If you prefer to make your star trails more smooth, I detail the export settings and Starstax application below! Star Vortex Effect: If you are happy as is, select all your layers and press CMD + E to merge all your layers into 1. You can apply the action more or less depending on how zoomed you wish your star trails to appear! In this case, I chose to apply this action 35 times. Once ready, press the play button 30-80 times to apply the zoom effect as shown below: Also ensure Layer 1 is selected in your layers window. Make sure your вЂњZOOM EFFECTвЂќ is selected in your actions window. Our Photoshop action is now complete! Time to put it to use. We can now press the stop button to end the recording. Once complete, we are complete our Photoshop action. Change your layer blending mode from NORMAL to LIGHTEN. Once that is done, click the check box to finalize as shown below: Now at the top of your window, change the H(height) and W(width) to 99.8%. With Layer 1 selected, press CMD + T to TRANSFORM. Now lets duplicate out Background layer by press CMD + J or CNTRL + J(pc) to create a Layer 1. Name your new action вЂњZoom EffectвЂќ then click RECORD to begin making your Photoshop Action.Дouble check you are recording by finding the red circle at the bottom of your actions panel. Once your panel is open, click the NEW LAYER ICON to create a new Photoshop Action. If this play button is not on your screen, go to the top of your screen and click WINDOW > ACTIONS and the actions panel will appear for you. Lets create our own Zoom Effect Photoshop action! Click the play button as circled in the image below to open your actions window. Since we will inevitably be repeating the same transform process 30-80 times, lets save ourselves some time. We later export all these layers as individual files and make it look extra crispy with Starstax. The first star trail up is called the Zoom Effect! This effect is achieved by making a custom Photoshop action that we repeat 30-80 times.

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