<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/430e740b-72fc-4197-a872-61c2d76afa99/04AE954F-4F5C-4318-AD47-507D49BCD7BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts" href="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts" style="font-size: 11px;">www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><H1>HowTo: Make Pretty Pie Charts <SMALL>4 January, 2007 — <A href="http://stua.rtbrown.org">Stuart Brown</A></SMALL></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Open Illustrator, create a new document [Ctrl-N]. Any page size will do. If you're designing pie charts for the screen, you may want to ensure that the RGB colour mode is selected. <P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step1.jpg" /></p> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step3.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step4.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step8.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step13.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step15.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> In the transparency palette, click on the right-hand black square to edit the opacity mask. <P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step17.jpg" /></p> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step18.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step19.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/img/2F4F3244-1FD3-4E77-B93C-DC42D564EC36" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto-make-pretty-pie-charts"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> To further embellish your pie chart, add some labels (compound paths consisting of a rounded rectangles with a long pointy triangle - solid white fill with 1.5px black stroke) with a nice font (I've used Myriad Pro), and their own drop shadows. <P align="center"><IMG src="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/piechart-tutorial/step21.jpg" /></p> That just about concludes the tutorial - there are plenty of other flourishes that can be added, but the above covers the basics, and experimentation will yield further results. This is exactly the same method as I used in the 'Demographics of Digg' charts, with the exception of custom pattern fills (I may cover this in a future tutorial). You can download the Illustrator file for this tutorial <A href="http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/etc/pretty-pie-charts.zip">here</A>. </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/04AE954F-4F5C-4318-AD47-507D49BCD7BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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