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This tutorial should teach you to create a starburst like effect which brings in some action in your artwork.
We start with a simple white image and draw many black rectangles on it as shown here. More black areas lead to a darker effect.
Now, right click on your image and choose Filters-Distorts-Polar Coords.... Choose a circle depth of zero and activate "To Polar".
You should get something like this.
Apply some Gaussian Blur (IIR) to the image (x=15, y=15 are good values for this image size).
Create a new layer and fill it with a dark color (I used R=0, G=31, B=63).
Add an alpha channel to our first layer and put it over the second layer like shown here.
That's all! Note: The result may differ if you use other settings!