From the course: Infographics: Visualizing Relationships
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Using a pen tool to draw relationship lines - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Infographics: Visualizing Relationships
Using a pen tool to draw relationship lines
Here we are with the final version of a radial relationship diagrams that we've been recreating in Photoshop. We've got 24 characters in three groups around our circle, with these colored lines indicating the relationships between everybody. Now let switch back to our work in progress that we've been building over a wireframe. We've got our labels for our characters, a legend telling us how we're going to color-code things, we've even created a few of our character platforms here, connected to their labels. So now we're going to connect these characters and visualize there relationships using color-coded, elastic-looking lines. In this video we'll draw the lines, and in the next video we'll tweak them. First let's figure out who we want to connect to whom. We'll zoom in. We'll start with Peter Thiel. He is an angel investor. In Excel we'll take a look at Peter's connections. So we'll scroll down. Right now it's sorted by character alphabetically. So we can see here Peter Thiel has two…
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Setting the stage for a circle relationship visualization4m 1s
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Drawing relationships for your characters5m 16s
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Arranging your characters around the circle3m 22s
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Creating a legend for the relationship lines7m 14s
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Separating and spacing characters around the radial chart7m 25s
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Using a pen tool to draw relationship lines5m 43s
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Adjusting the curvature and transparency of the lines2m 57s
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Adding directional arrows5m 14s
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