Color & Shape Blending Tool (updated for CS4)
1. Color blending is fun and very easy to do. You can end up having cool creative shapes with the blending tool. Now for this tutorial, create two shapes separate from each other.
2. Now just go to the tool bar and select the blend tool button.
3. Now from the beginning, double click on the blend tool button (or just hit enter while blend tool is selected) and open up the dialog box. You should see the following dialog box like the screenshot above. Here are the setting details:
Smooth Color = Smooth transition
Specified Steps = You can assign the number of shapes you want inbetween the original shapes.
Specified Distance = Gives specified distance per blending object.
4. Now all you need to do is click one shape, then the other shape and it will do everything for you.
5. This one is specified steps blend in action.
6. If you want to split each morphed shape apart, go to OBJECT and EXPAND. Hit OK with both STROKE and FILL checked. Then ungroup the shapes and you should be able to move each one of them.
7. My result of spreading them apart
doesnt show how you made the traingle and circle wtf
stop wasting chris’s time with dumb remarks.
Morph???
Did they change the name?
I’m using CS# and it says BLEND tool(shortcut W)
nice tutorials.
This is all iam doing but its not coming a real image sorry u r tutorial is not correct because photosop is very clearly but it not listning me
This isn’t Photoshop. This is Illustrator tutorials.
i followed your suggestion and it worked great. However, the color/shape look was not unifom. I mean there were also lines between the two objects made up of the two color types I had chosen. Do you know why this was the case?
you probably have lines because your object have a stroke applied to them.
As David said, In CS3 it uses the Blend tool.
when converting a word file cover design to adobe illustrator file will color intergrity of the word file be maintained or will it change since the color format is RGB for woed and adobe is CMYK?
This is great! Thank you.
this is so freakinq cool!! my son was so excited after he seen it happen!
hahaha ;hehe :)
Nice! Can anyone tell me if it is posible to add a curve to the line between the two shapes?
Yes, Mk
select the blended shape and add Anchor Points with Add Anchor Point Tool (+) in Pen tool section.
your tutorial was great and its helping me get A’s in my class…. thank you i appreciate your help.
@Jeremy:
I am happy that I was able to help you to that degree. Thanks for visiting. Much appreciated.
ITS NOT WORKING
never mind i got it
how can u separate the objects that you created when using blend tool into different individuals?
nvm i found it
Very cool! Thanks for posting…
@Bettina: You’re welcome.
Thank you for this, I just learned AI, and I didn’t know the shapes can be splitted :D
@leev: Yes and all I kinds of possibilities now arise! :D
@james blunt: Are u stupid!
Thanks for the tips! Nice tutorial.