stay tuned today and learn about three
different creative creations you can
make using Illustrator blend tool so the
first of three really cool things you
can make with a blend tool requires that
you choose a color in the color palettes
you're gonna want to use a fill for this
and I'm gonna go for a purple shade so
once you have your color ready press L
to the ellipse tool and then hold down
shift and click and drag to make a
perfect circle now press V for the
selection tool and then hold down the
alt option key and click and drag to
duplicate the circle then besides this
circle down somewhat and also change the
color you can then locate the blend tool
in the tool bar here or you can press W
which is the keyboard shortcut all you
need to do is to click one circle using
the blend tool and then hold down shift
and click the second circle your blend
is gonna be created and that looks
pretty neat but what you can also do is
to hold down the alt option key and then
click the blend and change the setting
to something like specified steps now
you can actually change how many steps
are used between two circles and this
might be your desired effect or you
could just go with smooth color like we
used before now stay tuned because we
can actually edit the shape in two
really really cool designs we need to
take the add Anchor Point tool and then
just add some anchor points along the
path like I'm doing here
once you have your points in place press
a for the direct selection tool and then
you can manipulate and move the points
around now this can be used to make some
really interesting designs and you're
gonna notice that the blend kind of
creates a shadow for itself as you move
around the shape but also what you might
notice too is that even though I'm using
the smooth color effect my design has
become kind of jagged so what do we do
about that
well press W for the blend tool or find
in the tool bar and then hold down the
alt option key and click your blend we
can then use the specify step option and
we can include something like four
hundred steps which will smoothen out
design so yes the first blend in today's
tutorial but stay tuned for two more
really cool uses for blend tool
creations so for the second design I'm
going to use the rectangle tool so press
M on your keyboard to access that and
then just click and drag to make a shape
on your artboard now a really cool thing
about the blend tool is that you can
blend different shapes together so now
I've got a rectangle let's generate a
completely different shape so in the
shape tool menu we can use a polygon
tool and just click once and drag and
then press the up and down arrows to
change how many sides that you can use
on your shape I'm gonna use a Pentagon
today to show you and of course from you
change the color to make a really cool
blend and I bring the shape over the top
of the other one
and then when you're ready go and locate
the blend tool and like we did before
click both shapes whilst holding down
shift now that's pretty neat
but let's go ahead and hold down the
option key and then change the blend
settings so for this I'm probably gonna
use a specified steps blend and the
lower I make it the more obvious the
steps are but if you want to know a
really cool thing that you can do with
this design is that you can press a the
direct selection tool and then click on
the inner shape and then press V for the
selection tool and you can actually move
it around and the blend is going to move
around with that too
you can also resize and rotate the
original shape and the blend is going to
match with that you can actually blend
three different shapes like a rectangle
a Pentagon and a circle and pretty much
illustrator is still going to blend
everything together in a design so have
some fun with it but stay tuned for the
last blend tool creation but it is
really awesome
so before I showcase the last blend tool
creation didn't forget to subscribe to
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and boosting your skills as a graphic
designer but you're the last blend tool
function revolves around a stroke
instead of a filled path so select the
stroke color in the color palettes and
then go find the curvature tool here
that's really easy to make some needs
and some perfect curves with this tool
and just make some kind of cool design
and like I'm doing here all is going to
become clear very soon so once you have
the first shape make a second shape
below that is actually going to be a lot
smaller than the original one so once
you have your shape ready go in change
the second shaped color in the color
palettes because we do want to make that
blend remember and it works best using
two different colors also of course
resize it down if you want to and it
does help if you have both shapes the
same stroke weight so I'm actually going
to choose a kind of purple color to
blend with my pink almost ready color
like we did before go and select the
blend tool and then hold down shift to
select both shapes at the same time to
activate the blend you can actually see
the plus icon next to the blend tool
when you hit with a stroke and of course
you can actually edit your design by
pressing a for direct selection tool I'm
moving the anchor points around what you
can also do is like we did before in the
video hold down the option key with the
blend tool and then change the amount of
steps used
I think you can make some really cool
artwork using this technique and
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