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Editing blended paths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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The earliest dynamic functions1m 10s
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The gradient-intensive illustration5m 26s
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Creating a multi-color blend7m 39s
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Establishing a clipping mask3m 34s
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Reinstating the mask colors9m 7s
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Editing blended paths6m 50s
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Adjusting the number of blended steps6m 49s
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Using the Blend tool4m 33s
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Blending between levels of opacity7m 32s
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Editing the path of the blend6m 22s
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Adding a custom path of the blend5m 4s
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Placing one mask inside another8m 33s
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Blending groups and adjusting the speed6m 1s
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Rotating objects in 3D space10m 21s
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Creating custom perspective guides8m 31s
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