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Editing the path of the blend - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Editing the path of the blend
I have saved my progress as Happy little star.ai. In this exercise, I am going to show you how to blend between objects that are far apart from each other and then how to modify the path of the blend in between. So I am going to start things off by zooming out. I am going to select this interior circle. Can't really see it but you can see the Exterior circle right there which is the beginning of that blend between the circle on the star shape. If you move your cursor in a little bit, you'll see that there is another shape just on the inside of the larger circle. Click on it and you'll select a smaller circle that has an Opacity value of 50% and 25% Yellow, that's all. Just like the outer circle actually but it's a different opacity level. But I want you to note that the color is 25% yellow, nothing else is going on. Now I am going to zoom out so that I can take in more of my graphic at a time and there is another circle over here some place. So I will press Ctrl+Y or Cmd+Y on the Mac…
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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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