How To

Make a British Flag from Scratch

Below are illustrations to show the process I took to build the flag. By the way, I used Photoshop for this.

First I started out with a blue background [fig 1]. Next I created the red cross [fig 2] which are two rectangles, one vertical, one horizontal. Then I added the white borders to the red cross [fig 3]. Next, [fig 4] I added the thick white diagonal bars followed by [fig 5] layering the smaller red diagonals on top of the white diagonals, while making sure the white borders from fig 3 overlapped those (see fig 6). Finally, I added a wavy texture and some shadows to make it feel more 3-D [fig 7].


Fig 1 Fig 5
Fig 2 Fig 6
Fig 3 Fig 7
Fig 4