This article guides you through the process of duplicating your work on another artboard and making modifications to a pie graph. Detailed steps are provided for creating a new artboard, transferring the original content to the new artboard, and adjusting the pie graph using various tools and techniques.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to utilize the artboard tool to create a new artboard and transfer the contents of the first artboard into the second, including re-titling and unlocking the background layer for dragging the selection of materials onto the new artboard.
- Modifications to the pie graph are made by first removing the drop shadow, changing the graph into shapes, using the ellipse tool to adjust the slices, and employing the shape builder tool for further adjustments.
- To finalize the modifications, the article describes how to add a drop shadow back onto the pie chart via the effect stylize drop shadow option, and to save your work for client presentations.
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In this video, we will be duplicating our work on another artboard and making modifications to our pie graph. Let’s begin by using the Artboard Tool to create another artboard.
We’ll go to our control panel, select 'New Artboard, ' and from here, we’ll want to copy all of our contents from the first artboard into the second artboard. To do this, let’s add a new layer, name it 'Artboard 2, ' and hit ENTER. From here, we’ll change our perspective by holding CTRL and scrolling to the left to zoom out. We’ll hit V on the keyboard, unlocking our background layer so that we can drag a selection box over all of these materials.
Then, holding ALT, we’ll click and drag all of these materials over to the right onto our artboard. One at a time, we’ll move each of these selections over to Artboard 2, beginning with the background. We’ll drag them up into Artboard 2, and here we now have all the materials for our piece of art.
Let’s zoom in and change our perspective to the right.
Next, let’s make modifications to our pie chart. To do this, let’s first remove the drop shadow from our pie chart, as we’ll be recreating it in the future. To do this, we’ll select our pie chart, go to Properties, then go to our Drop Shadow and delete it.
Next, we’ll need to change our pie graph from a graph into shapes. To make these changes, we’ll select our graph and go to Object > Ungroup. From here, we’ll get a dialog box informing us that this will be a destructive change, and we won’t be able to revert it to a graph.
We’ll then click Yes, and now we have our shapes. If we right-click on these shapes, we’ll see that we no longer have the option to change the data or graph style.
Next, let’s work with the Shape Builder and circle to remove the inside of these slices. To do this, we’ll use the Ellipse Tool. Dragging from the center anchor, we’ll hold Shift to make a circle, and ALT to drag from the inside.
We’ll then drag to the outside until we’re happy with the size of our overall slice, and I’ll release right about here. Next, we’ll hit V on the keyboard to select our center ellipse filled with our pattern. Let’s simply swap it so that it’s black on the inside and easier to see, and we’ll select the stroke and choose 'None.'
Now, let’s work with our Shape Builder. Selecting the center circle, we’ll also hold Shift and select the graph. With our Shape Builder Tool (shortcut Shift + M on the keyboard), we’ll create two shapes—one in the middle for our orange piece and one in the middle for our yellow piece.
We can hit A on the keyboard, select outside, and select only the center shape, then move it to the inside.
Zooming in, let’s line it up with the edge of our shape. We’ll then hit V on the keyboard to select our center quarter circle, and holding Shift, we’ll also select our outside circle.
We’ll then go to Shape Builder and do the same thing, dragging the slice from the inside. Next, we can simply delete our black inside circles.
To do this, we’ll hit V on the keyboard, select outside, and then select the first slice. Holding Shift, we’ll select the second and third slices. With all three selected, we can now hit Delete on the keyboard.
Here, we still have our pie graph; however, we’ve given it an interesting style with the center removed.
We’ll need to make one modification: dragging our ellipse and our line inwards. We can do this by first dragging the ellipse in and second, hitting A on the keyboard to select the end anchor point and dragging it so that it still remains on the circle.
We’ll hit CTRL + SHIFT + A to view our work, and we’ve now made these modifications.
As a final step, we now want to add our drop shadow. To do this, we’ll hit V on the keyboard and select the pie chart. We’ll then go to Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow, and we can see a preview of our work.
We’ll maintain the same drop shadow as our last image and click OK. If we now zoom out, we can see that we now have our modified image.
We’ll hit CTRL + SHIFT + A to deselect, and we can zoom out to view both pieces of our work.
When creating images for clients, sometimes they’ll want to see different examples of how we can modify the image, allowing them to choose the image that best fits their brand or desired look.
Let’s now save our work by hitting CTRL + S on the keyboard to save. In the next video, we will begin working on our three-panel layout. See you in the next video!