Recycling circle for logo

**AndyD** · 29 April 2020, 06:02 PM

Sorry, I've kind of busy gardening these days. I found an image on depositphotos but I've been asked if I could change the colours. I wondered if anyone had a tutorial on YT on how do it, or perhaps how to re-design it? It does look pretty "funky".

**Acorn** · 29 April 2020, 09:36 PM

Go for a vector redesign:

Recycle.xar

Create a Circle.
Convert to Editable shapes.
add the Line width.
Delete and break points to get a semi-circle arc.
Add an arrowhead.
Convert Line to Shape.
Colour green with the colour picker.
Add a vertical Linear Fill across the diameter and colour the other end the second green, again with the colour picker.
Go to the Shapes tool and converge the two mid-points.
Select the arrowher points and adjust its shape.
Clone flip up-down and left-right and position.
Shift+Stretch to better line up.
Finally, Group the two lines.

You should really Name the two colours.

Acorn

**AndyD** · 29 April 2020, 10:45 PM

That's astounding. Playing with it at the moment. But not as easy you describe it. Really impressive stuff.

**AndyD** · 30 April 2020, 11:50 AM

I have been playing with it this morning. I wondered if you could tell me how I can insert a type of pivot point in the middle at the thinning area so that I can overlay the arrowheads?

**Acorn** · 30 April 2020, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by AndyD

I have been playing with it this morning. I wondered if you could tell me how I can insert a type of pivot point in the middle at the thinning area so that I can overlay the arrowheads?

I don't follow.You can simply omit the arrowheads and have the two modified lines butting up to each other. Then just create a triangular shape and add on top.
You then have the ability to resize and rotate and position any number of heads.

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For the second one I actually used two 10-step blends along a quarter circle, increasing for green and decreasing for brown and then cloned.

Acorn

**AndyD** · 30 April 2020, 03:33 PM

Sorry about that, I was being very simple and stupid...

**Acorn** · 30 April 2020, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by AndyD

Sorry about that, I was being very simple and stupid...

Heck, go ahead be simple and stupid. Here, on TG, nobody minds.

Acorn

**Egg Bramhill** · 01 May 2020, 12:11 AM

Not on-topic but I'm enjoying the graphics of this thread. Here's another svg animation using svgator showing On Load, On Click & On Mouse Over options. Each animated svg file is about 500Kb. I'm not sure why the on Click & On Mouse Over is about half the speed of the On Load animation. I'll contact svgator.

LINK