Adobe Illustrator - Blend Tool - Class 15 (Tech Learning 4U}

 Adobe Illustrator - Blend Tool - Class 15  :

Assalamualaikum,

Welcome to  i am your teacher or mentor Imran

and today we have class no 15nt

so what we will learn today ?

we will study blend tool

blend tool and some related things with it

these are very interesting things

i hope you will all love this so come let's start

so first of all let me show you by zoom in

this is your blend tool

and what to do and how to do

you will understand so easily after some time and

like gradients is also a blend

i mean blending of colors are called gradient

but this blend will blend your objects

First of all

i will make you understand a simple blending

let say i have this circle

and one i have a square

and i want both of them to blend each other

so this is very simple work that

first make both of them by your rectangle and circle

tool

and select both of them by selection tool and

i choose the blend tool from here and

i click here in the center of the circle and

i click here in the center of the rectangle and see i

clicked

on the center of the both shapes

and you can also click on any point and if you see

them carefully

this is very simple blending in front of you

here circle is converting step by step in square

and see the between shapes are made by them itself

alright and let say

i am changing little bit more

and if i have 3 shapes

let say i have one triangle

and

one i have

a

square

and i have a circle

alright

and i am selecting all the 3 objects

and

you have to do that take you blend tool

and i clicked here and

clicked here and then i clicked here

anyway if you see them they don't have any meaning

i mean they are meaningless

but i am doing this to give you some ideas

let me tell you what actually blend do

it is not necessary that you have to do this

with different shapes

you can do this with

different sizes of object also

so i made this circle

and i made a another circle

and i decreased it's size

and i am blending both of them

i clicked here and then here

see this this both objects are blend to each other

and you can apply this to different shapes

as well as you can apply this to different lines

so let say i have

a line segment here

and we have one more line segment on below

and I am increasing it's stroke weight

say 16 and i am selection both of them and i want to blend them

see there is one more shortcut for it

see one more shortcut i want to tell you that

not only by the blend tool you can blend them by here also

so if you go to menu bar and then object menu

and see here below you will get blend

and then make and see here a shortcut is written near make

usually I use this shortcut

alt + control+ B

this will do that

this will blend everything

if you see carefully if you will get very awesome things there

yes but here these are very dark

but what is happening here ?

what are it's settings and how can we change them

i will make you understand about them but first of all i want to tell you

what is exactly the blend is ?

Blend is that you can blend different shapes to each other

and yes in this blend one thing is also special that

you can use different color's object for blending

for example

i am making this line yellow

sorry let me make this red

this is now looking orangish

and i am taking this one yellow

and i am selecting both of them and i am blending them

and now i am using the same shortcut that is control + alt + V

now this did the blend of them

this result is same like the result which we apply in gradients

yes this will also blend your colors

so smoothly along with the objects

alright and ok

here if we want to change some settings in it then

that time what we will do

then

simply come in blend tool and do double click here

or go to object menu and then

go to blend and click on blend options

and now see here in this pannel

first of all make your preview on and here smooth color is selected here

by turning on your preview you can see clearly what is going on

i am coming here and see here

we have second options here that is specified steps

now here is 217 value is given

i mean here 217 steps are applied to here

let say i want only 5 steps so

i typed five here

see this now here only 5 steps are coming

see carefully what is happening here

your original line

is blended with this line which was thick second line

this middle objects are

made by illustrator by itself

i said him 5 steps that's why it is coming 5 steps

1,2, 3,4,5 are coming

and one more interesting thing is that

you can change this lines further also

like this

alright this are some simple

blend rules

now come we will make some interesting things with it

so let say

i am making this oval right

i hope you remember that

rotate tool class

i rotated this and

i am adding one more copy on it

let say i am changing it's color

and

plus i am decreasing their weights also

i mean stroke weight

and i am also doing it's fill off, it is very important

ok i offed my fill and you can see it carefully then

these ovals are made very light

if you want then you can make it's stroke little bit thicker

ok now i am selecting all of them and pressing

control + alt + B

see here, it given some steps

in between the ovals

now the interesting thing is that if we increase it's steps then

now it is coming smooth colors so i will go to steps panel

now here is coming one step so on your preview and

just increase their steps

now you have very detail types

Spirograph is start making

now what is Spirograph ?

in childhood i hope many people had saw

a toy in which a utensil type thing which have small circles

and there some small gears type things was also available

in which we hanged our pencil and we rotated them to enjoy

so that same type of things are start making by this blend tool

this are known as Spirograph ok

this is very interesting and you can

experiment this with different shapes

let's try some other shape, I am taking some other shape

let's say i am making this star now

and

i am taking this color something dark

so that you can easily see what i am doing

remember that i had given very thin strokes that is

0.5

if you want then you can increase them also , there is no problem on that but i am choosing 0.5 here

because when we increase steps then at that

time it becomes too much heavy, i mean

it looks very strange while watching

now i am rotating this , see this and remember one thing that

i don't stop till here, I take one more copy over here because

it's reason is that

if i will put it till here

and then i will blend then it will look like broken blend

so take one more copy and put it over here i mean above the first shape

and you all know that after rotating

i pressed control + D for further copies

now i am blending the above by pressing control + alt + B

now let's increase

the steps and please on your preview

and see this

ok

now

i hope till here you people liked this

let's try one thing more

the stars which we made, you can select them individually

you can do one more thing that

you can fill different colors on them

i am putting green here

and i am putting red here

i am putting purple here

and so on you can add different colors on each stars

and see this

it will automatically blend

your colors also

and i had made this very colorful

this is not necessary that you have to give more colors in it

i just wanted you

to know that you can select them individually and

you can give different colors to each shape

alright now it's upto you that

what you can do with this blend tool

and now

i am making some lines

and I blend them and

i increased some steps by pressing control + alt +B

see

and

i am making some things very quickly to show that what we can do with this

if you want then you can select them with direct selection

and you can change the position of lines to make interesting stylish design

and see this can be utilized

as some good backgrounds

this will give you a beautiful background

yes

you can make this types of background

which are very interesting

so if i will change

the colors let say this

and

i will make a box in the background

and i am

doing this dark

see this

you had seen this types of background

and this are very helpful

and see if this lines are coming outside then you can do

masking otherwise

you can decrease their sizes also

if you understand till this

then let's take blend one step further

ok

in blend you can do one more thing that

that you have to apply this blend on some particular path

so let say i made this circle

let me make this smaller

and this is another circle which is little bit larger

i am blending this that is control + alt + B

but i don't want like this

i mean i don't want this on straight line or path

say i am making this curve

and i want this here

so you have to make any path and then select both of them

right select both of them and then

go to object and then go to blend

then click on replace spine

see this your last blending items became this

let say instead of this

i make some other paths also

i did undo and i am making this and let say

and one more thing if you want to see some settings of spiral

then just click here only

then you will get some settings of spiral

which type of spiral you want

you can increase and decrease the segments of this

now i am taking just only 8 segments here

like this

and i want this

this part to attach or blend with this part

and i selected both of them and then go to your object

and then blend and then replace spine

see and one more small thing

i want to change is that see now all larger circles are placed inside

and all smaller circles are placed outside and i want to

place the larger circle to placed outside and the smaller to placed inside

i mean i have to reverse the object in this spine

by this method

so for this you have only this option

i mean if you go to blend and then

after that you will see the reverse spine option here

you can do this also

you can also change the further settings of this

then do double click on blend tool

and see this from here you can change it's step and turn on your preview

if you want to decrease the steps or

you want to increase them this you can do from here

i mean from here you can do this very easily

I hope till here you people easily understand what i had taught you

Finally after this we have next topic is

this is a small option of blend tool

and see here there is no big rocket science

But i hope you will must make some good things

related to this and show me in my group

and see i simply made this 2 squares

and i am blending them

first of all i am making them little smaller

and i blend both of them by control + alt + B

and i am taking them and putting this blend part in side

and again i am

i am making that spiral

and

and after selecting them i am clicking to replace spine

and then i went to blend and then

i clicked to replace spine

one thing is looking very strange here

that's why i made squares so that i can understand you that

all squares are made very straight but i want them

to turn with the path

so do double click here and see you have

just on your preview and see you will get a option here

this is align to page and this is align to path

so please make align to path

so it will reshape itself easily like that

and you can do also

edit after that for example

and i am selecting this object

by direct selection tool

and now i am

rotating with this with my selection tool

see all others are also adjusting them self

by the reference of this square

sometimes when you will rotate them

their shapes started changing which looks very strange

so change them according to the shape of your path

and even you can

i mean you can select this that is the inside square

and i selected them with my direct selection tool

and with selection tool and i made them little smaller

ok

That's it

yes this is quite helpful

this is very helpful thing and many times it will help you in your work

and you can make many things with it

yes this is your blend tool and

this is small thing so this was a small tool

and i am trying to make more classes for you

that's why i am making small classes for you

so you will move forward very quickly by learning them

but that old long sessions which we had seen in past classes was also very important for you

they are most important for every stages in this field and i am not saying they are bad i mean they are awesome

Masa Allah now you are

becoming day by day very expert 

so now i will make some small videos for you

i mean classes will become smaller every day from today

when we will move forward it will become smaller and smaller

sometimes if a topic will big then i wall make big class

i will come next class inshallah

so must View my next Blog and i will come with next class very soon

Thank you