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Using the Blend tool

Using the Blend tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Blend tool

In this exercise, I will show you what can go wrong when blending between objects and how to solve problems using the Blend tool. I have saved my progress as Three-step blend.ai and I'm going to press the V key in order to switch to the Black Arrow tool, click on this path outline toward the top of the right-hand wing, and Shift+click on this lower path outline, and we are going to blend between these two guys just as we did over here in the left-hand wing. However, it's not going to work out as well this time. So I'll go up to the Object menu. I will choose Blend, and I will choose Make. Now I am fully anticipating that I am going to get a single step and nothing more. But as soon as I choose the command, I get this step right there. So we do just get one step, great, but that step looks totally wrong, and if I were to go over here to the Blend tool and double-click on it, and let's go ahead and switch over to Specified Steps, and raise that value so that we can create a bunch of…

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