: Creating playing table background with greenish rays coming from the middle Could anybody please advise steps in Adobe Illustrator for creating a greenish background with "rays" emitting from its

@Nimeshi706

Your sample image was most likely created in Photoshop. Photoshop makes the inset rectangle a bit easier, but the rays more difficult to make. Either application will work though.

Rays


Draw one ray, a triangle. Wide at top, point at the bottom.
With the triangle selected choose Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform

Once you have the rays, you can either choose Object > Expand Appearance and then delete the rays you do not want. Or you can create a clipping mask to simply hide the rays you do not want.
Fill the rays with a gradient of your choice.


Background


The background is merely a gradient filled rectangle.


Inner shadow around edge


Select all, Group (object > Group), and then choose Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow and adjust the setting.


Lighter part in the middle.

This is simply a rounded rectangle with reduced opacity. There is a slight bevel effect on it. This is easily done in Photoshop but takes quite a few more steps in Illustrator. Essentially you want a dark stroke at the top inside edge of the shape and a light stroke on the bottom inside edge of the shape.

Inset Rectangle


Use the Rounded rectangle tool to draw the rectangle. Or simply draw a standard rectangle ad use Effect > Stylize > Round Corners to round the corners dynamically.
Fill with a simply dark to light, top to bottom gradient
Choose Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow and adjust the settings to your liking.



I didn't address color anywhere. The colors are all merely gradients. There's nothing special about how the color is applied to anything in that image.

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