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Creating and applying a graph design - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery
Creating and applying a graph design
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create and apply graph designs. Now, in the case of this document, the graph designs are the logos, which are repeated over and over again, across the course of each one of the columns. Now, a couple of things I want you to notice about these logos, with the exception of Pinterest, every one of them is surrounded by a rounded square, subject to those dynamic round corners that we first looked at in chapter 14 of the fundamentals course, which is you're about to see, are going to cause us some problems, not insurmountable, but we'll need to be paying attention. Also notice if I press control Y, or command Y on the Mac, to switch to the outline mode, that we have all kinds of crazy ellipses that are associated with the Instagram logo. And those ellipses are making up that complex gradient that we're seeing right there. And they are massed into place incidentally, which…
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The pleasures and pitfalls of graphs1m 35s
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Graphing numerical data6m 52s
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Importing a tab-limited spreadsheet5m 26s
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Modifying data to create a category axis3m 46s
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Reformatting text and numerical values5m 39s
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Adjusting the graph type settings7m 41s
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Creating and applying a graph design9m 59s
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Setting the column type to repeating3m 54s
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Recreating a graph at the proper size7m 51s
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Customizing your legend7m 11s
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