Chapter 12: Create Blends


Overview

The Blend feature is one of the most powerful, versatile, and fun tools in Illustrator. You can use blends to create transitional images. Or you can create smooth color transitions to use for shadows, for tube-like results, or for other interesting effects. Blends take full advantage of Illustrator s underlying math-based curve logic.

Aesthetically, you can use blends to create a series of distinct transitions or to attach what appear to be effects such as shading or gradient blending to images. Figure 12-1 shows blending used for both purposes.

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Figure 12-1: The fence and steps were generated with step blends, while the subtle shading on the door was created with a smooth blend.
Tip  

You can't apply blending to bitmaps that you place in an Illustrator drawing. You also can't assign blends to type. If you need to assign blending to text, you'll need to convert that text to outlines. (Select the type block and choose Type Create Outlines.) For more on working with type, see Part III in this book.




How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS
How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS
ISBN: 0072230924
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 175
Authors: David Karlins

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