Comments on: Deke’s Techniques: Placing type on a circular path in Illustrator http://blog.lynda.com/2012/05/08/dekes-techniques-placing-type-on-a-circular-path-in-illustrator/ the blog of lynda.com Sat, 18 May 2013 21:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James Fritz http://blog.lynda.com/2012/05/08/dekes-techniques-placing-type-on-a-circular-path-in-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-1105487 James Fritz Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:40 +0000 http://admin.blog.lynda.com/?p=12957#comment-1105487 Hi David,

Deke created the circles in the background by using the appearance panel. All of these circles are just different effects applied to the same path. Here is a screen shot of the appearance panel with the circle selected from this exercise file – http://i.imgur.com/LUfzdf1.png

I recommend playing with the effects that he applied to understand how he made it.

To learn more about the appearance panel, I recommend watching chapter two of Illustrator Insider Training: Rethinking the Essentials. http://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-CS5-tutorials/Illustrator-Insider-Training-Rethinking-the-Essentials/78648-2.html

Good luck and thanks for watching!

James Fritz

]]> By: David http://blog.lynda.com/2012/05/08/dekes-techniques-placing-type-on-a-circular-path-in-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-1104085 David Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:12:52 +0000 http://admin.blog.lynda.com/?p=12957#comment-1104085 How did you center the two circles on the brown thick ring? Because I can use math to figure out the center of the ring but I’m hoping there was an easier way.

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