Be honest… charts in presentations suck! Sure, charts are way better than a table full of text data because of their “purtiness” but they still suck.
If only there were a way to spice them up like adding 3D effects… that would be awesome!
Since at least version CS, Adobe Illustrator has made it really easy to add 3D effects to pie charts (I’m obviously late to the game on this one but I’ve owned Illustrator since CS3 and have used it maybe 5 times). I was asked recently to create a pie chart at work and, like everything else, I can’t just do it the easy way. No… I like everything I create to stand out from the typical “boring” crowd. So the quest began…
Instead of going through all the steps necessary to create a chart and add the 3D effects, there are plenty of other blog posts out there showing you how it’s done. The beauty is after you add the effect to your chart, the chart data is still editable. Take a look at the following links:
I’m a huge Photoshop fan and never really had much to do with Illustrator. My Illustrator addiction is just beginning.
