any chance you could do a similar tutorial on your timeline/historical eras charts at some point? i'm thinking of a similar format to do a comic book chronology project, but am not a technical person at all... as bonus content, thank you for sharing material like this!
For April Fools Day, you should upload a video called "Useless Charts" where you make a chart that connects Chandragupta to the invention of microwaveable popcorn or something crazy like that.
Props to you for making this!! Lesser youtubers would have gatekept their methods but this just shows what a good guy you are - it really comes through in your videos!
Thanks, I have seen several videos about Adobe Illustration, and yours is simple, clear and useful. I’m a strong PowerPoint user and your explanation really help me 👍😎😉
Great job, Matt. I love your work. Could you also make a video about which sources do you usually use to make the family trees (like books or even the Internet itself)? Ispired by you I'm currently trying to make charts of (what I think is) the greatest genealogy work of Brazil called "Genealogia Paulistana" which refers to the Genealogy of the old Province of São Vicente/São Paulo (since the 16th century), which covered more than half of Brazil's territory.
Thanks for showing us your work path. I would use Serif's Affinity Designer to do this. Cheaper than Illustrator, and their companion book tells you all you need to know, plus there are hundreds of useful videos on UA-cam too.
Aw, I'm just coming from the Libre Office video and I was so happy that such a good content creator was using and disseminating open source software! But now I'm a little sad to see that the design industry won and took him to the dark side (Adobe)...
I’m not sure if you’re notified when someone posts a question, but here goes. You and I are highly similar in being visual learners. I’ve created numerous graphs/charts in my years as a student/teacher, but not your wonderful level. Q. Between LibraOffice and AdobeIllustrator, which program’s UI is the most intuitive, well organized, user friendly, and refined? I do know some about the early deep design theory behind Apple’s Mac UI.
Also. If you use the pen tool you can draw lines, and if you draw a line with a corner, you can do the same thing you did with the rectangle to round the corner
When aligning objects (let's say 2 objects) and you don't want one of them (say a square under a text field) to move (so you don't have to realign it), select both objects like you did, then click on the square you don't want to move. Now notice you went from two thin blue outlines (color depends on layer you're working in, blue for bottom layer as standard) to one with a thin outline (text field) and one with a thick outline (square you clicked on). You have now chosen a master object, and the other chosen object will be aligned in relation to that, instead of both objects moving in relation to the other. I.e., the square doesn't move. Also, text, by default, does not resize when you change the shape of the field. Change the width of the field (for centered text) to the width of the square for instant left/right centering on the square. Instant quarter circle line: Use the arc tool and hold down shift. Pen tool (with shift key) lets you easily make more complex lines with right angle corners, far fewer lines to draw discretely and move into place to create corners. If you don't make them too complex, they're also easily resized, as if it were a rectangle. An "[" shape, for instance, is perfect to resize and move and copy, much easier than three discreet lines. Source: I've done a lot of layout and design. And I should say, that even if it's great to work in and does the job, Illustrator is probably not the Adobe app you should use for stuff like this. This is basically basic layout work, and InDesign is actually a lot better suited (but also a complex app and not every tool you need is the same). But yeah. Illustrator works fine. Stick with that if you haven't done much layout for books and magazines and such. Anyway, your vids are super interesting, and I really haven't done any complex charts, and I'm inspired to try! Will join the reddit community and post my stuff there! Already have an idea!
One can do almost all of this in Powerpoint, although I can see the big advantage of Adobe Illustrator (from your video because I've never tried it) in terms of the large scale scope of your charts and the very fine grid. I had to laugh when I saw you fragment the circle into a piece of curve. You could actually do this in Freelance for DOS - OK, I'm showing my age here! For some reason, the feature was lost when Freelance switched to Windows (and also absent in Powerpoint, which basically copied Freelance, in the beginning).
I'm curious if Microsoft Visio would also be good for timelines, or family trees. I know it's for flow charts and diagrams but how different are they really?
I'd be interested in seeing your process from research to chart... that would be cool. To see how you gather your information and so on. If that makes sense.
Almost of your charts have sold out!...Maybe. But how big or long is your "portrait-oriented" chart before it is sold? Is it a reverse 1920 x 720 pixels? If you do, I would say it will be a challenging to place those rectangular name tags and lines!
What I do mean is that the width would be 720 pixels wide then length would be 1920 pixels long. Instead of 1920 pixels wide and 720 pixels long. Landscape to portrait, all that stuff...
Just buy a good mind mapping software and you can build pretty awesome hierarchical charts and imbed graphics. Pretty sure some even support the .PS or other vector format. Or even use gimp or blender.
Hey, Have you tried using Microsoft VISIO? That software is intended to create charts and is very powerful and easy to manipulate items. I recommend that you try it. I have used it for all my academic purposes. (Disclaimer : Not affiliated to any company)
make prophet muhammad decendent chart, but i am afraid they have many enemies if you make it, they will be in great dangers because from them will come al-mahdi
@@Anonymous-dh4id no, most creative people still use Windows just like most people. Now more creative people use Mac OS then the general populus but those are not the same thing. But hey I just miss the days he used linux
Matt Baker is a theist and a Jew……. Does Matt know his tribe? God’s Love and all Jews shall be saved, God said through Paul... Romans 11:26--And so, all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, there shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: Evolution God’s Love and the Lord Jesus Christ wants all men to be saved and that is why salvation is free for all. Definition of theist-: a believer in theism: a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods specifically: one who believes in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race. Matt Baker will be going to Heaven, his soul shall in Heaven. Evolution did you get that. Matt lives in America as a scattered abroad. 1 James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diver’s temptations; 3 knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. God (Jesus) came from Heaven and died for the sin of Adam (Humanity). Evolution too can be saved through faith alone.
Bonus video today 🤓
any chance you could do a similar tutorial on your timeline/historical eras charts at some point? i'm thinking of a similar format to do a comic book chronology project, but am not a technical person at all... as bonus content, thank you for sharing material like this!
Thanks bro
@UsefulCharts can you plz tell how you proceed to animate these charts and add audio of you explaining. Please let me know.
The animation is done using Adobe After Effects.
@@UsefulCharts ok 👍
For April Fools Day, you should upload a video called "Useless Charts" where you make a chart that connects Chandragupta to the invention of microwaveable popcorn or something crazy like that.
Lol
I vote for this!
Me too!
Also add the Taliban.
And FIFA soccer.
yep should happen
Props to you for making this!! Lesser youtubers would have gatekept their methods but this just shows what a good guy you are - it really comes through in your videos!
So happy for you teaching us how this process is made! It will help a lot of students
Big fan of your charts already, but it's really nice of you to show how you put them together. Much appreciated. Thank you.
I am creating a family tree for my family at the moment. Your video popped up, thanks for the tutorial! Such a great help!✨
same or atleast im trying to, i can just use my last name to trace back 700 hundred years🤯
Thanks, I have seen several videos about Adobe Illustration, and yours is simple, clear and useful. I’m a strong PowerPoint user and your explanation really help me 👍😎😉
Useful charts is my 1 favorite history channels
Great job, Matt. I love your work.
Could you also make a video about which sources do you usually use to make the family trees (like books or even the Internet itself)?
Ispired by you I'm currently trying to make charts of (what I think is) the greatest genealogy work of Brazil called "Genealogia Paulistana" which refers to the Genealogy of the old Province of São Vicente/São Paulo (since the 16th century), which covered more than half of Brazil's territory.
Thanks for showing us your work path. I would use Serif's Affinity Designer to do this. Cheaper than Illustrator, and their companion book tells you all you need to know, plus there are hundreds of useful videos on UA-cam too.
Matt’s family tree charts inspire me to make my own charts
This was helpful. Looking forward on tutorial how you make your videos!
Aw, I'm just coming from the Libre Office video and I was so happy that such a good content creator was using and disseminating open source software! But now I'm a little sad to see that the design industry won and took him to the dark side (Adobe)...
I’m not sure if you’re notified when someone posts a question, but here goes. You and I are highly similar in being visual learners. I’ve created numerous graphs/charts in my years as a student/teacher, but not your wonderful level. Q. Between LibraOffice and AdobeIllustrator, which program’s UI is the most intuitive, well organized, user friendly, and refined? I do know some about the early deep design theory behind Apple’s Mac UI.
Also. If you use the pen tool you can draw lines, and if you draw a line with a corner, you can do the same thing you did with the rectangle to round the corner
When aligning objects (let's say 2 objects) and you don't want one of them (say a square under a text field) to move (so you don't have to realign it), select both objects like you did, then click on the square you don't want to move. Now notice you went from two thin blue outlines (color depends on layer you're working in, blue for bottom layer as standard) to one with a thin outline (text field) and one with a thick outline (square you clicked on). You have now chosen a master object, and the other chosen object will be aligned in relation to that, instead of both objects moving in relation to the other. I.e., the square doesn't move.
Also, text, by default, does not resize when you change the shape of the field. Change the width of the field (for centered text) to the width of the square for instant left/right centering on the square.
Instant quarter circle line: Use the arc tool and hold down shift.
Pen tool (with shift key) lets you easily make more complex lines with right angle corners, far fewer lines to draw discretely and move into place to create corners. If you don't make them too complex, they're also easily resized, as if it were a rectangle. An "[" shape, for instance, is perfect to resize and move and copy, much easier than three discreet lines.
Source: I've done a lot of layout and design. And I should say, that even if it's great to work in and does the job, Illustrator is probably not the Adobe app you should use for stuff like this. This is basically basic layout work, and InDesign is actually a lot better suited (but also a complex app and not every tool you need is the same). But yeah. Illustrator works fine. Stick with that if you haven't done much layout for books and magazines and such.
Anyway, your vids are super interesting, and I really haven't done any complex charts, and I'm inspired to try! Will join the reddit community and post my stuff there! Already have an idea!
One can do almost all of this in Powerpoint, although I can see the big advantage of Adobe Illustrator (from your video because I've never tried it) in terms of the large scale scope of your charts and the very fine grid. I had to laugh when I saw you fragment the circle into a piece of curve. You could actually do this in Freelance for DOS - OK, I'm showing my age here! For some reason, the feature was lost when Freelance switched to Windows (and also absent in Powerpoint, which basically copied Freelance, in the beginning).
I think the first graphics software I used was Harvard Graphics for DOS 🙂
@@UsefulCharts how you make in video line circling around box that is showing at that moment? I guess it is something with video editing?
Yeah, that's done in Adobe After Effects
@@UsefulCharts you should do a video how you animate chart, it really looks nice
loved it, hope to see more behind the scenes vidoes like this one!
so dang helpful! thank you
Super cool giving this insight.
I want to thank usefull charts to make genology a very tough topic into a easy one.
I never saw that old video when it came out, but hey, it's cool that you're a fellow Linux User
How big is the size of your family tree? And how many generation is on your family tree?
I'm curious if Microsoft Visio would also be good for timelines, or family trees. I know it's for flow charts and diagrams but how different are they really?
Awesome video Very informative Thank you!
I'd be interested in seeing your process from research to chart... that would be cool. To see how you gather your information and so on. If that makes sense.
Would you consider making a video on how you do the "timeline of ______ history" charts?
Oh neat. Though I did somehow think this was going to be "history of Adobe products"
You can crop and size an image in illustrator using a clipping mask
Amazing work!!! I do illustrator and photoshop drawings!!!
Next step, how you animate your charts! :)
yeah that would be great to know
Great job!!!
Thanks.. now that my father has asked me to do our family chart :)
Mustve been hell to recreate every chart you already had in illustrator
This best channel, can you make Egypt family tree
great video i was curiours how you animate the charts into a video
Good video 👍🏻
Thanks you! :D
How do we make a curve line in libreoffice can you tell
Do you do personal ancestral charts for normal people Matt?
Almost of your charts have sold out!...Maybe. But how big or long is your "portrait-oriented" chart before it is sold? Is it a reverse 1920 x 720 pixels? If you do, I would say it will be a challenging to place those rectangular name tags and lines!
What I do mean is that the width would be 720 pixels wide then length would be 1920 pixels long. Instead of 1920 pixels wide and 720 pixels long. Landscape to portrait, all that stuff...
What do you think of QuickFamilyTree app?
Hi this is Matt from musical charts 00:01
Would love a chart showing how/when the different Christian denominations split from common ‘ancestors’, ultimately back to Judaism.
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I'm gonna start my own UA-cam channel now 😂😂❤
Best of luck brother!
Are the animations and voice recording done in after effects?
Yes.
@@UsefulCharts thank you!
Can you please tell which format you save for screen record pdf or png?
Very good I have also made charts from your channel
Just buy a good mind mapping software and you can build pretty awesome hierarchical charts and imbed graphics. Pretty sure some even support the .PS or other vector format. Or even use gimp or blender.
It’s always funny when people make comments like this. It’s like telling a farmer they could ‘just use an ox’ rather than a tractor. Sure you could… 😂
Hey, Have you tried using Microsoft VISIO? That software is intended to create charts and is very powerful and easy to manipulate items. I recommend that you try it. I have used it for all my academic purposes. (Disclaimer : Not affiliated to any company)
Visio doesn’t run on a Mac. However, Omnigraffle does - it’s much better too!
any solid ipad apps for making these charts?
Adobe Illustrator costs over 20€ a month. I stay with libre office
Me: I think I might try our Adobe Illustrator.
*sees the price of £20 a month*
Me: Never mind.
How you create chart animation?
Maybe you can do charts for religion sects?
Guess what, I'm hand-drawn
Not really interested in the tutorial, but how kind of you it is to post it! Just let me leave a thumbs up and a comment for the algorithm.
Next, can you make a mobile version? Sorry if it sounds annoying.
Detailed graphic design cannot be done well on a mobile.
@@UsefulCharts Oh, that’s quite sad.
I was thinking about AI but couldn't figure how to make it work lol
ok
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I am the 77 commenter of this video
make prophet muhammad decendent chart, but i am afraid they have many enemies if you make it, they will be in great dangers because from them will come al-mahdi
Wait you are Jewish ?
plz say ctrl instead of command
Calm down
Sad seeing you use a mac
That’s what most creative people use
@@Anonymous-dh4id no, most creative people still use Windows just like most people. Now more creative people use Mac OS then the general populus but those are not the same thing. But hey I just miss the days he used linux
Matt Baker is a theist and a Jew……. Does Matt know his tribe? God’s Love and all Jews shall be saved, God said through Paul...
Romans 11:26--And so, all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, there shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Evolution God’s Love and the Lord Jesus Christ wants all men to be saved and that is why salvation is free for all.
Definition of theist-: a believer in theism: a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods specifically: one who believes in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race.
Matt Baker will be going to Heaven, his soul shall in Heaven. Evolution did you get that. Matt lives in America as a scattered abroad.
1 James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diver’s temptations; 3 knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
God (Jesus) came from Heaven and died for the sin of Adam (Humanity). Evolution too can be saved through faith alone.
Wait you are Jewish ?