I decided I wanted to make a box for my original Thrust to go with the rest of my reissues. I have it pretty much finished minus some little tweaking. The only problem is I cannot quite seem to figure out how to do the yellow burst in the background. I was wondering if any of you photoshop gurus could help me out? Any help is appreciated. Here is what I have so far.

 

Looks like I asked too soon. I tinkered some more with the image and was able to get this.

 

looks good

Thrust was one of my first transformers and amazingly I still have all of his parts.

 

Two things:
1: Thrust's left upper shoulder thingy (jet fanatics, what is that thing called?) is cut off, you may want to find a new image.
2: I never realized how happy Thrust looks in the G1 box art image! He almost looks like a Muppet!

 

You mean like this?
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=112765
I did it in Photoshop; a couple of layers, with radial gradient fill. I can try & put up a file with just those layers in it, if it'd help.

 

The yellow burst looks too big, it should act like a spotlight.

I researched that part a bit as I worked on my devastator giftset box:

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=111264

 

Thanks for the comments and help. Today I received the first of two extra seeker boxes for the project. Here is how it turned out. I brought the spotlight in a little bit. Looking at it now I probably should have done a little bit more. I also changed to the Dreamwave art to match the later reissues. I have another box on the way for Ramjet.