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Animating Graphic Images in a Circle
I have some PNG images I need to arrange around a circle, then rotate the circle of objects.
I have been creating a circle mask/path using the ellipse tool. But getting the objects to snap to that circular path is the rub.
The tutorials I have found online seem to all use the pen tool to draw a path freeform. I need a perfect circle.What is the best/easiest way to do this, thanks!
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5 Replies
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Hold down shift for a perfect circle, add cntl after you start making your circle to have it anchor to where you started making your circle.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Thanks.
So here is what I am seeing.
I draw the mask/path, perfect circle.
Copy mask path, paste it onto position
of the image I need to align.When I do that, another path with handles
gets created, and the image follows THAT path.
I suppose I could live with that, but how to move
or resize that path with the handles? -
Thanks so much guys, everything is working now 🙂
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One more obvious question –
Other than eyeballing it, is there a more precise way
to align the objects around the circle, so they are
exactly spaced apart? -
Dave, does the referenced null technique automatically space all images equally distant from each one’s center? So they are distributed equally around the circle?
That wasn’t my understanding – hence the question.
Thanks.
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