Illustrator sunshine background?

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Im just wondering how someone can generate* or create perfect sunshine* effect in illustrator… similar to this one.

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the pen tool.

edit: and photoshop to do some of those glaring effects i guess.

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perhaps a little more detail is in order?

If you create one of the sun beams, you can duplicate it to make them spread around… depends on how many you want. So for example, there’s about 16 beams altogether in that image. if you divide 360(a full revolution) by 16 you get 22.5 so you need each beam to be rotated 22.5 degrees more than the last.

then it’s perfect geometrically.

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So I cannot generate something like this in Illustrator? I have to rotate every each of them?

no It has to be something easier man I cannot just rotate every line. It has to be something easier.

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well, there’s no one tool that makes retro-style sunshine, no.
but if you know illustrator well, what i just explained will take maybe one minute… and then if you wanted to you could save it as a symbol so you can reuse it.

by the way, the drawing and design forum is a better choice for questions like this really.

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moved this to drawing and design.

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You can do this easily in freehand, by creating one “beam” and using the reflect tool - :slight_smile: - not sure about Illustrator, although I think you can use Clone and duplicate as far as I can remember

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ok

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lmao! :lol:

you must be pretty lazy :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue:

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hehe nah but I just though maybe there is a easy way for it.

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there is an ez way.

create one burst
then select the rotate tool ®
press option (alt on Windows) and click the area you want to make your center point
then choose the degree you want the rotation (15 would be good)
hit copy (not ok), then it’ll make a copy of it,
then press cmd+d (control + d on Windows) to duplicate the object multiple times and you’ll see it start to rotate around that center point…

takes about 10seconds to do a full burst, the size of the burst and what not is completely up to you.

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this has to have been asked at least 4 times before, but simp’s way is probably the easiest, either way your going to have to do it yourself theres no tool that replicates a beam and spins it around an origin

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I would use the polar coordinates method in PS then bring into illustrator. But I have used sims method too.

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agreed, polar coordinates is probably the most automated way of doing it…