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Vishu Aggarwal
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Vishu Aggarwal is a Passionate, Professional & Multi Vendor Certified Trainer. He's an enthusiastic learner, creative designer, and an individual always eager to explore more in the fields of Graphic & Web Designing, Digital Video-Sound Editing, Instructional Design, Digital Marketing, UX/UI, 3D Animation, Virtual Reality, and Game Design. Being a career focused professional, he supports businesses across industries with extensive media and digital marketing services. His all-around experience and expertise in delivering niche multimedia and graphic design training, video editing, and many such media-related areas enable him to contribute towards accelerated organizational branding and performance with unparalleled creative outcomes.
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Creating a bar graph line

We will create a graph line using the Pen tool to indicate the graph values from 2020 to 2026. The Pen tool is a great tool for creating custom shapes and Bezier paths.

Follow these steps to create the bar graph line:

  1. Select the Pen tool in the Tools panel and make sure Fill is set to None, Stroke is a white color, and the Stroke value is 10.
Figure 4.38: Pen tool settings

Figure 4.38: Pen tool settings

  1. Now, make sure that no layer is selected in the Composition panel, then click on the bottom of the 2020 bar. We create a vertex point on the 2020 bar and place vertex points on all the years’ bars going from top to bottom and again from bottom to top. This depicts that the graph is sometimes going up and sometimes down, which is how a statistical graph naturally is. This is shown in Figure 4.39. Rename the layer Graph Line.
Figure 4.39: Graph Line created using the Pen tool

Figure 4.39: Graph Line created using the Pen tool

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Vishu Aggarwal

Vishu Aggarwal is a Passionate, Professional & Multi Vendor Certified Trainer. He's an enthusiastic learner, creative designer, and an individual always eager to explore more in the fields of Graphic & Web Designing, Digital Video-Sound Editing, Instructional Design, Digital Marketing, UX/UI, 3D Animation, Virtual Reality, and Game Design. Being a career focused professional, he supports businesses across industries with extensive media and digital marketing services. His all-around experience and expertise in delivering niche multimedia and graphic design training, video editing, and many such media-related areas enable him to contribute towards accelerated organizational branding and performance with unparalleled creative outcomes.
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