831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends

Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Technique. … Now last week inside Illustrator, … we colored our triangle tunnels with gradients. … This week, also inside Illustrator, … we will be coloring our triangles with blends … which gives us the opportunity … to switch from blue, what's wrong with blue? … To rainbows. … I ask you, what's wrong with rainbows? … Here, let me show you exactly … how all the colors work. … All right, here are those blended rainbow tunnels … just so you have a chance to cast your peepers upon 'em. … I'm going to go ahead and switch over to the blue version … of the artwork and I'll turn off the pattern layer … as well as the blues layer right here … and I'm going to create a copy of the hexangles layer … just by dragging it and dropping it … on that little page icon at the bottom of the Layers panel … and then I'll go ahead … and turn off the original layer … and I'll double click on a new one … and I'll call it Rainbow Blends, let's say … and then I'll change the color …