Help Creating Japanese Rising Sun

[Ayleigh]

Hi, I could use some advice and hopefully someone can help me out. I’m trying to make a Japanese rising sun design. The sun rays or sunburst that’s on the Japanese flag. I googled it and found a tutorial but it’s for photoshop and I have all of the Affinity software. If anyone can give me some advice on how to accomplish this I would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks! Take Care,

Amy

naval-ensign-japan.zip

[Old Bruce]

Try using the Cog tool in Designer. Then you need the paper or cloth background under that and use darker colour for the blend mode.

[Ayleigh]

Thanks for your reply! Im still having a hard time recreating the sunrays. I did try the cog tool, I think I just don't understand how to use the tools properly yet. So, I bought a couple courses from Udemy. It's a little overwhelming at first trying to learn everything.  I thought about taking an image of what I want and tracing it too. Do you think that would work out ok?

[v_kyr]

It's very easy to do ...

[v_kyr]

Though a traced flag as a vector shape might finally look more equally to that original then. Just add a suitable background (as Old Bruce said) and blend the layers together then. - I've used a small paper bitmap background here (just for quick show purposes), you should of course use a bigger one, or ideally a vector based too, so you can scale up and size as needed without pixelazation/rasterization.

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