Making a Circle Shape with Dots

How do I make a circle out of dots in Illustrator?

Step 1: Create a single dot.
Step 2: With your dot still selected, select the Rotate Tool (R).
Step 3: Left click once where you want the center of your circle to be in relation to your dot.
Step 4: While holding Option/Alt the whole time, click and drag your dot to the left or right, it will rotate around the point you just designated with the Rotate Tool. Release it when you're comfortable with the position of your second dot.
Step 5: Press Cmd/Ctrl + D repeatedly, this will mimic your last action over and over, creating more dots around the point you designated in a perfect circle.

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Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me
out please.
I am using Photoshop CS Version 8.   I have a photo which I would like to print out but in a circle shape. I'm a bit of a novice at Photoshop and can only really re-size, crop and alter tints/hues and thats about it. After struggling with this I found this tutorial in Youtube but go so far and am stuck.
http://http://www.youtube.com/user/ijaza83#p/a/u/2/nmz40OH7LK4
The photo is 4 x 5.3in but I want the circle to be 4 x 4 in. That is what I sized it when I did File, New. I can draw the circle but its not a steady line, its like dotted and when I click the background or anywhere in the image, the circle disappears. Also by fluke, another time I got as far as placing the photo and dragging it to fit but could not get the photo inside the circle. I'm not good at layers and mine seem to say set 1, not stage 1.   I don't find it as easy as it is in the video. Can anyone enlighted me please?
Message was edited by: Tichbourn

I use CS3, so I can tell you how I'd do it, but I can't be sure it's applicable to your version:
Open the photograph.
Create a new layer on top of it.
Double click on the background layer to unlock it. It now becomes Layer 0. Move Layer 1 under Layer 0.
Go to the Eliptical Tool and set the Fixed Ratio 1 to 1.
Circle the picture - move the dotted circle to frame the area you want. Then Select -> Inverse; Then Edit -> Cut.
Merge Down, and save as a JPEG.   Then you can print the image.

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Then use the Period key.
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I want to make shapes with words such as circles and squares. Can I do that in pages?

I want to make shapes with words such as circles and squares. Can I do that in pages?

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How can i draw a shape with the line tool and then fill it with colour

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- Jason

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import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;
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So, as of today I'm new to scripting for Illustrator, I'm using the ExtendScript Toolkit. However I'm not new to scripting my own solutions and I do have some experience with JavaScript already.
What I'm trying to do is this: For all selected Items->Duplicate selected item and make a simple clipping group with it
What I end up with visually doesn't change the picture, but gives me a lot of clipped colored areas which I then can edit in the isolated mode, allowing me far faster and better shading. Doing that by hand takes hours on some pictures, it'd take a second with a script.
The script itself already perfectly works for normal PathItems. As obvious in the title, as soon as I have to apply the same to CompundPathItems things stop working. My issue is somewhat similar to this old thread [Problem with compound path clipping], but I couldn't find a solution there because I get different behavior.
When I run the very same script that perfectly works with the normal PathItems with CompoundPathItems I get this: Error 9046: The top item in the group must be a path item to create a mask
Well that's a problem. In the GUI there is absolutely no difference between making a clipping mask with a simple path and a compound path. The reference guide has frankly not helped me with this issue at all, the only thing I learned from that is that the CompoundPathItem object doesn't have a clipping attribute, but those included PathItems do.
Here's what I have so far:
if ( selected[i].typename == "PathItem" ) {
var newGroup = doc.groupItems.add();
copy = selected[i].duplicate(newGroup,ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
selected[i].moveToBeginning(newGroup);
newGroup.clipped = true;
As I said, this part perfectly does what it's supposed to do for normal Paths.
For CompoundPaths I use this workaround.
if ( selected[i].typename == "CompoundPathItem" ) {
var newGroup = doc.groupItems.add();
copy = selected[i].duplicate(newGroup,ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
selected[i].moveToBeginning(newGroup);
compoundItems = selected[i].pathItems;
compoundIndex = compoundItems.length;
for ( f = 0; f < compoundIndex; f++ ) {compoundItems[f].clipping=true;}
var lineList = new Array(10);
for ( l = 0; l < lineList.length; l++ ) {lineList[l] = new Array( i * 10 + 50, ((i - 5) ^ 2) * 5 +50);}
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newPath.setEntirePath(lineList);
newPath.moveToBeginning(newGroup);
newGroup.clipped = true;
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Mind you, this workaround does work in so far that it bypasses that annoying and wrong error, and the Compound Clipping Path also works, with the only problem being that the Compound Clipping Path created like this is still displayed in its original colors in the Layers section, and is still selectable. When I lock the Compound Clipping Path I can work with it but still...
So the question is, what am I missing here? Surely there must be a proper way to do this.

app.executeMenuCommand()? That one eluded me so far, might be just the right thing. I'll definitely take a look, now just to find a ref on that, as unfortunately the official ref documents I have don't mention that command. Any place with a list of possible commands?
Ah, also of course I'm not only doing it for the isolation mode. If you care to hear the background, here is it:
As I said it's for shading the pictures I'm working on. I've iterated and tried through a bunch of techniques. For example gradient meshes on my first few real works. Now those meshes don't do well with complex shapes, which previously I alleviated by using a simple square or rectangle gradient mesh and using the original colored shape as a clipping mask. That did work, but it was a huge lot of work.
After a bunch of attempts at that I went over to using simple gradients as a background for the shape and then I'm doing the shading freehand with the blob brush tool, using a graphic style and filters to make it look right. That's better, but properly making all the clipping masks takes me much longer than anything else.
Now the problem is that the shading is not supposed to go over the lines, which is impossible to do properly without either messing up the order, or using clipping masks, hence the script. Because you know, if you use a blob brush with a strong Gaussian blur close to the lines you'll end up with stuff on both sides. If you don't start close to the line the shading won't look right if the darkest part of the shade needs to be close to the line. And that's where clipping masks do magic.
And finally here's an example how I work with the script and the result:
After I have traced a sketch, adjusted the line widths and everything to look neat I turn the paths to outline strokes and then make them into a live paint group (which would mess up the line widths, unless you turn the paths into outline strokes first).
With that live paint group it takes me just a few minutes to flat color my piece. Then I expand the live paint group, in case of doubt spend some more minutes to make compound paths from all areas I need to shade in one piece, then I select all the areas and use my script to turn them into neat clipping masks. Then I can click any area, enter the isolation mode and go up one level so I'm in the appropriate group, where I can shade freely without the problem of going over the lines.
At the end that allows me to apply a complex and in-depth shading, without wasting any time to get there.
PS: Well, I just found out that Draw Inside is pretty darn close to what I want to do, and oddly enough it produces the same visual discrepancy with compound paths that my script produces. I'll be taking a closer look at that, though my script does a little more than just the clipping mask stuff, so maybe I'll go for a hybrid solution. Whatever makes for a better workflow.

Creating shapes with blend modes in actionscript 3

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Can someone please help me with this and simplify it has much as possible. I need to have some sort of answer sometime tomorrow. I thank anyone who helps.
I have this code so far.
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.Shape;
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addChild(btn3);
addChild(btn4);
addChild(btn5);
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btn3.y = 395;
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circ.graphics.lineStyle(2, 0x000000);
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trying to migrate from old pages in I work to new. totally lost. see a symbol in my document looks like a vertical line - with dot at top. is one line tall. can't make it go away.
What is it? What does it do? Had some shapes in the document - until I found what I really wanted - text boxes. had devil of a time getting rid of shapes, still can't get rid of mystery lollipop.

You seem to be supplying all your own answers, why not ask yourself?
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Format > Arrange > Object Placement > Move with Text
Change it to:
Stay on Page
Which is the equivalent of the old Floating.
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It is odd that shapes can't mask other shapes, but there is a very handy workaround technique called "Preview Passthru". Create the shape you want, then copy it. Next, open Preview, and in the File menu, choose "New from Clipboard". This will create a new Preview document with your shape. Save this document as a PDF file, and drag that file back into your Pages document. The shape should look the same, but it is now a PDF rather than a native iWork object, and so it can be masked (but it can't be edited).

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Hello.
I ran the Windows 7 updates yesterday, but only the necessary ones. I did not install any of the optional ones. After the updates completed, I turned the computer on and it was stuck in a loop cycle - starting windows, then the admin password log in box came up. The box was fiiled in (with "dots" but too many to represent my password) and the screen just quickly flashed back & forth between the log in screen and "password incorrect". I tried to switch user, and it flashed back to the admin log in.
I did a system recovery to factory defaults (after backing up all data) using the recovery discs. After recovery, the "Set a password for account" screen comes up with the box below "Type a password" filled in completely with dots. I cannot erase them with the backspace or delete keys. If I highlight it and then try erase it with backspace or delete, the cursor just moves to the right hand side of the password box, but it still doesn't delete the faulty password "dots" so that I can change it.
I tried to reboot by holding in the power button and then turning it back on. After selecting country & language again, the same password screen come up.
It is stuck! Any help would be greatly appreciated! I computer I have is the HP TouchSmart 310 PC 1155-Y.
Thank You!
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That is curious with a Recovery. First, try to reset the password using NTPassword. Make the CD, boot to it following the directions. If that does not solve the signon problem, consider installing the OS from a regular Windows 7 disk of the same version, using the key from the COA sticker.
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