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Creating a legend for the relationship lines

Creating a legend for the relationship lines - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a legend for the relationship lines

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We're in the middle of recreating a radial chart, a visualization of the many relationships between different investors and different social networks. We've got a wireframe and labels for all of the characters, and we're going to connect them with lines to demonstrate their relationships. But before we start drawing relationship lines all willy-nilly, we're going to come up with an illustrate a legend so we can draw everything with the right colors the first time around. This way we won't have to go back and change everything, and we'll make it easy on the reader to figure out what's going on in this complicated graph. So I'm going to zoom in and show you the legend. You'll see here in the top-right corner this box has the six colors indicating what the lines meaning. In our infographic we're going to draw these lines to show who is connected to whom, but we want to color-code our lines, so we can tell what kind of relationship is had between them. Now let's go see where we got this…

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