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kaitygirl88

Blaze Family Index

Dec 30, 2010 20:35

Overview: In an alternate 1920s, Atlas Blaze, head of the Blaze Mafia, is shot down and his daughter, Firebird, becomes the new Boss Blaze. With the help of her colorful Family members, she plans to take the Blazes to heights previously unimagined, and woe to anyone that tries to get in her way.
The Blaze Family Tree - A revised family tree for the ( Read more... )

index, prompts, rotp, writing

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nathskywalker April 24 2011, 13:00:09 UTC

what did you use to make that family tree? I'm trying to do one (and a relationship map) and I'm struggling to find photoshop brushes or anything that I could use to make it look more or less good. Any recommendations?

kaitygirl88 April 24 2011, 15:46:18 UTC

I did mine all in photoshop, pretty much from scratch. As far as I can tell, there aren't any photoshop brushes with the basic lines for a family tree, though I did try out using some of the border brush packs on deviantart.com and manipulating them (I didn't end up using them because they got a bit too busy for what I was doing, but you might try it out with better success!). As far as my lines go, I made those with the basic paintbrush in photoshop. If you plan on creating your stuff in photoshop as well and want basic lines, then I would be more than happy to send you my .psd file so you can just lift them and don't have to go through the mind-numbing dullness of creating a ton of different lines! XD

As far as the more ornate stuff goes, like the background and the header lines for the key and such, I just raided deviantart and brusheezy.com. I don't know what style you're going for, but those two sites have served me well in my misadventures with photoshop! ;)

nathskywalker April 24 2011, 15:53:01 UTC

I started doing my family tree(s) today because that's what I'm going to do for the big RaTs Anniversary and wow do they take long to make. I have to make several, some huge, some tiny, and I found a brush I can use for the lines but it involves a lot of deleting afterwards.

I'm probably not even going to do anything ornate and pretty because first, I need to get all this done and that's already so much work.

Thanks for the help :)