Hi everyone, my name is Karl Gude and I'm going to show you how to make a pie chart in Adobe Illustrator CC. Over in the left, you have a tool palette. And, one of these little tools is a Charts Tool, you'll see that it looks like a bar chart. If you hold down the mouse button, you will be able to pop out a Pie Graph Tool. I'm going to go ahead and select that. When I draw a box on the desktop here, what I get is a Spreadsheet. Now I can import data using this icon here on the top left here, or I can just type it into this Spreadsheet directly which is what I'm going to do because I indicate this siphoning and make up the data that's not real stuff but it will show you how to make one. I'm going to go ahead and type in some fruit names. Everything you type into this spreadsheet will occur up here into this box up here and it gives you a one, it doesn't know what you want to do, just automatically gives you one. I'm going to go ahead and type in Apples, Pears, Kiwi, it's short and fast [LAUGH] and Grapes. We'll add bananas, Bananas, there. Now, I'm going to go ahead and pretend that their, let's say it's priced per pound or something, but I'm just going to keep this simple and go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 just to get some data in here. You never want to have a put icons like symbols like a dollar sign or commas into this spreadsheet, it only recognize periods and whole numbers. So if I go ahead over here and click on the check market top rate of the input box, you're going to find something wrong. When you click on that, it looks like circles. This is a very valid chart type and it does represent the proportions, that I typed in there. So in order to make a pie chart, you don't want to enter your data coming down the way you would typically enter data into a spreadsheet. It actually has to be tabbed straight across. I'm going to go ahead and click this icon here that says Transpose row/column and that now puts it in the proper format to be a pie chart. And I'm going to click the check mark, and there it is. Adobe has not realized that they are a design company yet, and so they make these really ugly charts. I'm going to go ahead and close this window by clicking in the red button here on the top left of the window and I now have a chart that is still linked to the data. So if I decide I want to take out Bananas, I can right-click on this, scroll down to the data, open it up. And there with my bananas I can just decide I don't want bananas in there and you can see that it just click the check mark automatically updates it. So it is linked to the data. And I want to bring these legends they're called. The key, the labels from the key into my pie chart wedges. So I'm going to right-click again and go to the word Type and up here you can actually change it to a bar chart, or something like that. We're going to keep it a pie chart and we're going to go down here to standard legend, and we're going to say, Legends in Wedges and say OK. And it pops them into the middle. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on this. And now, pie charts, it's really important to know that pie charts are supposed to be 100% of whatever it is you're talking about. Maybe this is the 100% of the fruit I purchased today, it's all sitting on my counter. You can use whole numbers in pie chart wedges. You don't have to use percentages. It just has to be 100% of whatever it is you're talking about. We're going to pretend that we wanted to shrink this to fit in a certain space, like in a column on a website. And I'm going to come over here to my Resize Tool, Scale Tool over here. I'm going to click on that and it has a two part process. The first thing you get is a crosshairs, and that's like driving a nail into the point in the chart that you want it to stay stationary at. I'm going to click on that first point, and you can see that little blue crosshairs you got, and then I'm going to come over here, and I'm going to shrink it, and you can see how that stays in place. You notice that you can see that in the blue image that it is not staying circular. And so I'm going to hold the shift key down so it retains its shape and form the circle. You don't ever want to create a Pie chart inprospective. It distorts the data. I doesn't allow people to actually see the proportions by seeing the wedges as they are. People have to actually read the data and it becomes nothing more than decorative. I'm going to zoom in a little more on that by clicking on the magnifying glass or hitting Cmd or Ctrl-++, I think my type is a little too small. I have the entire chart selected here. And I can now just go Cmd-T, and just automatically enlarge the type to say 8 point. So once I know that the data is exactly how I want it, and I don't need to change the data on the spreadsheet, I'm going to go ahead and say object Ungroup this, and it's going to say this won't link to the data and you say that's fine. There are different levels of ungrouping, and if I grab the pie chart the wedges are all grouped together still also. I can go back and say arrangement ungroup again, and now each pie chart will be an individual wedge. And same with the type, but right now I think I'll just leave the type alone. I can color these pie charts, these wedges in different colors, but I'm going to keep them all the same color. I'm going to go ahead and draw a box, a selection box with a black arrow around the entire thing, But I want to deselect the type. So I'm going to hold the shift key down and hit deselect that. And I only want to color theses wedges, not the type. So I'm going to go back to my swatches menu here. And instead of picking one of these creepy colors they have here, I"m going to actually click in the little box on the upper right hand corner and you'll see that you get these options. And I"m going to switch down to Open Swatch Library. And if you have a lot of different things here. I'm going to click Earthtone which has all these colors that mix well together. They match. And I'm going to make this a color, making sure that the fill color is in the foreground, not the line color and I'm going to select a color for the pie chart. I'll make it this tan color. And I'm going to make the lines white. So I'm going to bring the lines to the foreground here, and I'm going to click white. And so now I have white lines. I'm going to click on the Type tool up here, and I'm going to go to the word Grapes. I'm going to put a dollar sign, and call this $2.00. And then I'm going to go ahead and select that $2.00. I can drag it across it or double-click. Triple-click actually and then I can hit Cmd+T for my type again. And I can make that a larger font like 12 point Regular. I click 12 point. I've filled that in the type size box and I'm going to go ahead and make that Bold, and now it says grapes $2.00. There's a bit of distinction in the type faces there which is nice, but there's still too much space between the two. So, I'm going to select that again and I'm going to go to the line spacing tool right here to the right of the size, and I'm going to make that about 12 point also, and you can see that that pops it right back down. And I think now would be a good time for me to ungroup these fonts because actually, I might want to move them around individually, and I'm don't want to have to use the direct selection arrow to do that. So I'm going to select these and go, I can actually right click and say Ungroup right here. So now each word can move around as I want. I can make it look exactly perfect. So I'm going to go ahead and select triple-click on the $2.00 and copy that Cmd or Ctrl-C depending on whether you have a Mac or PC. And I'm going to go to the Pears word here, and I'm going to hit return and paste. And I'm going to click to the apples and hit return and hit paste. And I'll do that with the Kiwi and hit return and hit paste. And so you see now I have that formatted type for each one. So, there we have a pie chart and very quickly I'm going to go ahead and put a little headline above it by clicking the type tool. I'm going to put a headline above it and I'm going to say Fruit prices. I want to put a subhead line under this that says you know the price of the fruit I bought today or whatever I want. I'm going to just put in some fake type. It's always good to keep type in the same box if you can. You can do it as individual type blocks too, that's up to you. I'm going to go ahead and hit return and paste in some dummy type that I had, and I'm going to go ahead and select that type and I'm going to reformat it down to eight points. And I'm going to make it not bold, and I'm going to make it tighter on the letting. I'm going to make it about nine point letting. Etc., more text here. And then I also want to make sure that I put in price per pound otherwise the numbers mean nothing. So I'm going to say price per pound and then I think I make that italic just to separate it from the other type make it a price per town. I could add a little bit of extra space there if I wanted by adding a little more letting maybe ten point letting. And I think I want to make my title a little bit bigger, so I think I'll make that actually 16 point. I'm going to go ahead and drag across this like all the elements in my pie chart and not the headline and I'm going to hit Cmd-G or Ctrl-G and group things together. And, by the way, grouping together will not relink it back to the data. That ended long ago. And now if I click on the headline, up here along this column you'll see there's some align tools. There's one for centering. You can also go Window, Align. And now those are centered. And if I want like put it behind this. Behind everything down here in the bottom of this toolbar window, you'll see two icons. One is for draw in front of, one is for draw behind. I want to draw behind of this so I'm clicking the draw behind button icon. Click on a box now and draw. And it draws behind. It's remembering the last color I used so I'm going to go back and re-open my swatch library, my earth tones and get perhaps a darker color. Maybe I'll make it a darker blue here and now my headline is a little illegible, so I think what I'll do there to make it look nice is I'll go ahead and fill that in white. But it's a little glaringly white. I think I'm going to give it a little bit of transparency, so that it picks up a bit of the blue behind it, and it'll soften that a little bit. You see? That looks pretty nice. And, once again, I can just select all of this stuff now and then say align centers, and everything just becomes perfect. So that's how you make a pie chart, folks. Hope you enjoyed it.