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Editing blended paths

Editing blended paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Editing blended paths

In this exercise we're going to take that elliptical gradient that we created with a fair amount of effort as a blend, and we are going to customize it to fit the contours of this grassy knoll. And that's something that we can't do with a gradient, but we can do with a blend. I have saved my progress as Manual elliptical grad.ai and I am going to go ahead and grab my White Arrow tool and I am going to hover my cursor over the various points inside of this grass in order to find out where the edges of my blended objects are. So if I move to this point right there, notice that you can see in addition to my white arrow cursor I have a black square that tells me that there is something underneath my cursor. I will click on it to select it and this looks to be the middle path and indeed it is. So this is that sort of darkish shade of green, not the ultra dark green and not the light green, but the one in between. What I would like to do is add a couple of points so that I can raise this…

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