customize free downloaded vector

**tinarella** · 24 August 2013, 06:07 PM

Hi all,

i am a beginner so apologize in advance for the simple question

i downloaded this vector http://www.cgvector.com/vector-beaut...info-graphics/ which i like a lot and would like to customize the pie charts... is it possible? if not, any other suggestions please?

thanks in advance
Martina

**gwpriester** · 24 August 2013, 06:23 PM

Welcome to TalkGraphics Martina

The download link links to a tutorial so I think you can create your own chart from the tutorial and customize it as you need.

**tinarella** · 24 August 2013, 06:30 PM

sorry i cannot find the tutorial

**gwpriester** · 24 August 2013, 06:33 PM

Strange. I followed the link and this time there is no download button. But, I still had the link in the first tab, so here is the link
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I suspect that it is an ad of some sort or they are trying to sell something. I followed the link. It is a download for a freeware program that is probably going to download bad stuff onto your computer.

**Big Frank** · 25 August 2013, 03:12 AM

Couldn't you draw that yourself in Xara? It doesn't look that difficult to me.

**Albacore** · 25 August 2013, 10:45 AM

I would firstly learn how to make a chart in Illustrator and there are may tutorials online giving you info on that. I am not going through Facebook and linking my friends to the site in order that I can download the template but basically it is a nested set of pie charts and I have done a few for my old work place but used InDesign for those. Have a look at this Dutch company tutorial here: http://www.duoh.com/varia/illustrator_charts/

The tutorial is for a simple pie chart which would be your centre pie chart containing the data. The outside pie are just symbols which are transformed and unlinked as a symbol then recoloured and the shaped values changed. Hope this helps you complete your task but you are asking a lot of yourself in the skills dept. Maybe try it in Excel first and copy and paste into Illy.

**gwpriester** · 25 August 2013, 12:35 PM

Couldn't you draw that yourself in Xara? It doesn't look that difficult to me.

Frank - Wrong forum.

**tinarella** · 25 August 2013, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Albacore

I would firstly learn how to make a chart in Illustrator and there are may tutorials online giving you info on that. I am not going through Facebook and linking my friends to the site in order that I can download the template but basically it is a nested set of pie charts and I have done a few for my old work place but used InDesign for those. Have a look at this Dutch company tutorial here: http://www.duoh.com/varia/illustrator_charts/

The tutorial is for a simple pie chart which would be your centre pie chart containing the data. The outside pie are just symbols which are transformed and unlinked as a symbol then recolored and the shaped values changed. Hope this helps you complete your task but you are asking a lot of yourself in the skills dept. Maybe try it in Excel first and copy and paste into Illy.

thanks Albacore! i kind of learned yesterday how to make a pie chart in order to recreate the satellite pie-charts (though to make the doughnut i had to add a circle shape of the color of the background in the centre ).

I also tried to make the pie chart in Excel but when i imported it it looked awful! it lost all the resolution.

what worries me more is the central pie... i think i wouldn't be able to recreate that for the time being ... maybe in 3 years but i will have a look at your tutorial and many thanks for sharing it!

In order to download all the info-graphics on that website you have to wait 2 minutes or so... then the sharing icons disappear and you will see the download button

cheers
Martina