Circle of 5ths?

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jack_zucker

Jun 29, 2004

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I’m looking for a tutorial for doing a cycle of 5ths drawing similar to this <http://www.geocities.com/sax411/theory/cof5.html> but with the lines bisecting the circle at 30 degree intervals. It should be dirt simple, I know. I created some grid lines and generated a 4" circle and then a line bisecting that circle. I then intended to copy the layer with the line and rotate it 30 degrees and merge it with the original and then repeat until I had all 12 divisions but photoshop wouldn’t let me transform the layer with the line in it. Sorry for such a newbie type of question.

Don_McCahill

Jun 29, 2004

rasterize the shape layer

jack_zucker

Jun 29, 2004

Oh, duh… Thanks and sorry about that. Hard to believe I was pretty good in photoshop at one time.

Thanks.

Phosphor

Jun 29, 2004

It’s easier to build one for you than to explain how to do it.

Grab this Photoshop file (CircleOf5ths.psd.zip…about 4KB) <http://home.comcast.net/~phoz/bbs/CircleOf5ths.psd.zip>.

UnZIP it.

Open it in Photoshop.

Edit the paths to your liking.

jack_zucker

Jun 29, 2004

hmmm – For some reason your file comes out blank. I created one myself though.

<http://www.jackzucker.com/cycle.zip>

Now, I just need to put the keys and their accidentals centered and rotated around each slice…

Phosphor

Jun 29, 2004

Have a look at the Paths Palette, Jack.

The Work Path has the vector paths I created.

ALT + click on the icon for Work Path and you’ll see the raw paths. I left them raw (unstroked/unfilled) to keep the file size small.

jack_zucker

Jun 29, 2004

Oh,sorry. I didn’t think to look at the paths palette.

Thanks!

jack_zucker

Jun 29, 2004

Hi Phospher – I looked at your paths. Nice but take a look at my document which is more what I was going for. That’s why I was hoping to get a step-by step tutorial. The only problem with mine is that the line apparently was bisecting the circle exactly.

Phosphor

Jun 29, 2004

As you can see, I just created a more precise version of the image you linked to in your first post.

I looked at your file.

Please explain how what you’ve created is NOT what you want. I’m not understanding you.

jack_zucker

Jun 29, 2004

What I created works fine. I was just curious about alternative methods. The only thing I need to add now is the keys and flats/sharps.

Thanks.

none

Jun 30, 2004

Make a new layer draw a line, Crtl+ T ( transform) then rotate by 72 degrees. then Ctrl + J ( jump new layer ) Then Shift + Crtl + T ( transform again) four more times.

Bigcat

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:02:29 -0700, wrote:

I’m looking for a tutorial for doing a cycle of 5ths drawing similar to this <http://www.geocities.com/sax411/theory/cof5.html> but with the lines bisecting the circle at 30 degree intervals. It should be dirt simple, I know. I created some grid lines and generated a 4" circle and then a line bisecting that circle. I then intended to copy the layer with the line and rotate it 30 degrees and merge it with the original and then repeat until I had all 12 divisions but photoshop wouldn’t let me transform the layer with the line in it. Sorry for such a newbie type of question.

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