creating a target or bullseye effect--best way?

[DPR Colo]

hi forum,

i'm looking for a tip on the best way to create a 'target' or bullseye effect in illustrator--i can't seem to find the proper way to step and repeat a circle path and have it shrink down like i can in indesign or quack...

any suggestions on the best tool? many thanks!

[steggy]

Make a circle, choose the scaling tool, option (alt) click
on the center, choose your scaling factor, hit copy. With
Command (Ctrl)-D you can repeat this action.
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steg

[Ann Shelbourne]

You could make an Action that:
Selects the reference point to the center in the transform palette;
Uses the Scale tool to Scale Uniformly at 75% and Copy.

Just play the Action as many times as you need concentric circles, and fill each with the colors that you need..

EDIT:
Peter bear me to it -- but an Action could still be useful!

[peter huisman]

Make a circle, choose the scaling tool, option (alt) click on the center, choose your scaling factor, hit copy. With Command (Ctrl)-D you can repeat this action.
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Peter

[peter huisman]

Oh yes Ann:)))
I have fun with them, in Photoshop mostly. But this is a pretty simple way of doing it I would say. Select, copy-scale, and repeat transform.

Plus: you have power over the scaling factors etcetera. An Action is an Action. Unless you edit it.

Love to read your posts by the way.

Peter

[Thurgood]

Easiest way is the make you exterior circle and your smallest circle and with the align palette center them then make a blend
with the number of steps you want set in the blend option then expand the blend. If you want to see through the white rings you can use the pathfinder to eliminate those portions from the black or colored circles.

[Doug Katz]

Yes, Thurgood's blending option may be the most efficient. Remember that a bullseye's rings have some weight so the circles' strokes should be thickened and/or converted to thicker. filled outlines

[Joe Duhamel]

As another suggestion, Offset path might be useful, since the distance between each circle would be exactly the same. Using the scaling option makes the space between the concentric circles diminish.

[Adam Schneider]

Joe's right, Offset Path is definitely better than scaling. However, blends are also a good idea, especially if you already know exactly how big your largest and smallest circles should be.

[DPR Colo]

thanks so much guys,

this was a great help and i ended up trying them all--the blend being the quickest and easiest for me since the offset path (i don't know the quick key for repeating that) seemed to take many more steps. both came out great though, so thanks for the thread.

now i need advil because staring at the resulting target is giving me a headache! :)~

dpr