: Photoshop: How would you illustrate a video signal? I'm working on an infographic that depicts a satellite "beaming" down a video signal to a receiver on planet Earth. How exactly would one

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I'm working on an infographic that depicts a satellite "beaming" down a video signal to a receiver on planet Earth.

How exactly would one design this video signal? I don't want the viewer to think the beam is a laser beam, and I don't want it to look like a particle beam, or a light beam from a UFO, etc.

How would you draw/illustrate a beam or streak that conveys to the user that it can't be seen by the naked eye, yet, it illustrates that data is being transmitted?

Also, if anyone knows of a Photoshop tutorial out there that I could follow to create it, that would be great! Thanks for your time.

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@Harper654

You can show a series of translucent video frames in a line between the satellite and receiver. The reader will know they are representative because they haven’t seen video frames in the sky. And you are properly depicting that frames of video are being sent one after the other.

The frames can just be TV-shaped rectangles, translucent to imply their virtual nature. You can put a talking head on every one, or make a simple animation like a ball or bird moving across the screen from frame to frame.

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@Shanna688

I would add some lines like in the wlan-icon as they represent unseen signals

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