Animating Graphic Images in a Circle

[John Cuevas]

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.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Chip Hess]

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?

[Chip Hess]

Thanks so much guys, everything is working now 🙂

[Chip Hess]

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?

[Chip Hess]

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.