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Replacing a blend spine - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Replacing a blend spine
- [Instructor] The default blend spine is a straight line that you can bend around a bit, but otherwise you might want to make your own spines, and that's what I'm going to do here in this movie. And what I want to do is turn off some of the content here so you can see what I've actually got going on with the blends. And it's easy enough for me to do that and turn off the background. What I've done is I've created three larger circles for each of the tops of these lines and three smaller ones down at the bottom, and I'll just zoom in on those so that you can see they are in fact different gradients. And the circles at the top happen to, strangely, they match the colors at that particular point there, which is very useful indeed. So I'll turn the background off again and let's make some blends. I'm going to choose this circle down at the bottom here, so I'll just zoom in to get hold of that circle, and then I'll do cmd +…
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