Now it’s time to produce the light rays effect from the lines. When you have the layers selected, click the Group icon at the bottom of the Layers Studio Panel to add the layers to a group. You can do this by clicking the top line layer to select it and then whilst holding down your shift key click the bottom line (be sure you don’t include the bottom image layer in error). We now need to group all the line layers together in the Layers Studio Panel. Then with the Line Tool active, change the width of the Stroke in the toolbar.Ĭontinue drawing lines of varying thicknesses until you feel you have enough light rays. You only need to click the layer in the Layers Studio Panel to select a line. Don’t worry if you forget to do this because you can change them at any time.

This would never happen in nature, so we should really vary the thickness of our lines as we draw them. You should also notice that all the lines are the same thickness.

Notice that each line is on a separate layer in the Layers Studio Panel. Here you can see several lines that have been drawn using the Pen Tool.

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