Rays of Light effect in InDesign

[Lefkoff]

Mac OS 10.5.? • CS3
I once remember seeing a tutorial on the internet about making what appeared to be rays of light. You would draw a circle, give it a dashed stroke, then set the thickness of the stroke insanely high. This would somehow create multiple thin lines at the center of the circle that would increase in thickness as they reached the outside of the circle. I cannot seem to make this work today when I need it most. I know I am forgetting something. Is anyone familiar with this technique? Any help would be appreciated.

[beermonster]

no sorry but if all else fails photoshp it
good luck

[David]

like this?

[Lefkoff]

David,
YES, YES, YES that is exactly what I am looking for. Please share your knowledge with this lowly production artist!

[David]

well, I may need to get DCS to write the procedure....


but, while we wait, I'll try to explain how I did it.

First, you will need to make a custom dashed line. What makes this work is the width of the line and the space between the lines. If you use the default dashed line, it won't work.
Go to your Strokes window and click on the triangle in the upper right corner and drag down to stroke styles
click on new
for the one I did, I used a .5" length and a .75" for the pattern length, play with those two numbers and see what you get.

HTH,
David

[gnubler]

Cool trick, thanks! Going off to try it right now.

[gnubler]

Mine's not looking cool like David's example...I need Ferba's guidance. What stroke weight are you using?

[Lefkoff]

Dave, Works like a charm. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I owe you a beer... or two.

[gnubler]

Got it! Here's my settings, with 200pt stroke weight:

[David]

yeah, it's a combo of the stroke weight, the line and the spacing.

cool trick!

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Cool trick. Wonder if it works in AI.

[Lefkoff]

Almaink provided the exact tutorial I remembered. Thank you everyone for the help.
http://www.designioustimes.com/tutorials/5-steps-for-drawing-complex-vector-sun-rays.html

[Tracy]

I didnt see any stroke styles in Ai

[Stiv]

Got it! Here's my settings, with 200pt stroke weight:

Inagoddadavita I love you. Stay away from the orange tabs, man. They are bad.

[Chelle]

Way cool. :grin: