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Using the Blend tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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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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