Hi, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To,
and today I'm going to show you how to make
an easy pie graph using the graph tool in
Adobe Illustrator.
So first, let's come over here to the column
graph tool, you'll see it right down here.
And you can choose pie graph.
And when you do that, it just gives you a
cursor.
And I usually just draw a box holding Shift,
and then it will give you this Excel sheet
looking document.
Here you can type in all of the values that
equal 100.
Okay, so let's type in 25, 27, 31, and 17.
Those four values equal 100.
So you can see it's already split them up
perfectly in a graph.
I'll just close this and then get your V tool.
Make a copy of this graph so you have it for
live data.
You can change colors and that kind of thing
in here, but I like to just expand it out
because there's some weird stuff going on
in Appearance when I use the graph tool.
So we'll go up to Object > Flatten transparency,
and then say, OK.
This stuff doesn't really matter, it will
automatically do what you need it to do.
These graphs come in standard with a black
outline, and when you expand it, it converts
it to a fill.
So the thing I do is just click on the black
part - it'll always have a black part in it
- and then Select same fill color.
And that gets all of those little black outlines.
Then with your G tool (that is your CMD Plus),
I mean your group selection tool, you can
just hold SHIFT and click the main black part.
Now that part's unselected.
Then you hit Delete to get rid of all those
little black outlines in between.
So now we can go ahead and and change colors
if we want.
I'll make this some kind of variations of
green and yellow.
Just so they have a sort of similar feeling,
I like my pie graphs to have a white middle.
So I just add a circle.
And we'll make this white.
So now we can center align.
I'm gonna change align to 'selection,' and
we'll align horizontally and vertically.
Now you have a quick easy pie graph.
It takes about two minutes and is so easy!
At this point, if you're making an infographic,
you can use your pen tool to make some callouts
to say, what is inside there.
I've got a white fill right now, so I'm going
to hit the question mark.
And so I only have a black fill.
And we can say 27%.
I'll change this to one of my favorite fonts,
which is Montserrat bold, and maybe make this
a little smaller.
I'm holding Shift CMD and the comma button
to move that up and down and then in my character
palette, we can go here to the Baseline Shift
and move it up.
And with my A tool, I'll bring this over.
And then here you can have a little description
or whatever you needed to have.
And if you ever needed to change the values,
you still have this live version.
If you ever need to change your values, you
could come up here to Object > Graph and go
to data.
And here you can change to whatever you need,
but this one, you no longer have access to
that data.
So that's why I keep a version off to the
side that I can easily change and redo and
that's my simple tip for the day.
This is Anne for Graphic Design How To.
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