How to Blend Shapes in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

[@MattBorchert]

Here is a new video I made that also covers blending shapes with colors, including the final example being a blend of colored text - kzbin.info/www/bejne/boKtomhtd8ZghLs

[@CosminSerbanDesign]

Hey, very useful tutorial! The blending option is very well explained! Thank you for making this video!

[@MattBorchert]

Thanks for the feedback Cosmin!

[@hassanh4512]

Fantastic stuff, absolutely perfect video - just forgot to mention the shift control while using the ellipse tool to make a perfect circle haha. Perfectly concise + informative!

[@MattBorchert]

Good call! :)

[@sepidartchannel]

Woow thank you that was really helpful for me

[@Aprendizzz2009]

Thank you Matt, good tutorial... I miss about colors, gradient... whether or not is necessary group, expand or/and anything else... in order to give colors to our shapes. 👍

[@MattBorchert]

Great feedback! Perhaps in the future I'll do a more detailed video on color blends. For now I'd say just play around with some different combinations to test what happens. :)

[@DucBanal]

A question that pops up into my mind is : is it possible to blend other type of objects? Like types? Custom paths ?

[@MattBorchert]

It absolutely is! You can blend pretty much any object inside Illustrator.

[@starmations8332]

Hey! Just a quick question, you said that it would be helpful if you set the fill to none. If you did, however, set the fill to color, would it make a gradient? Because that would be a fantastic way to add shading to a piece.

[@MattBorchert]

It would indeed blend the colors between the start and end points! Feel free to play around with it to see what happens. :)

[@starmations8332]

@@MattBorchert Thank you so much!

[@ChristopherDillman]

1:54 - Thank you for this tutorial. And shame on silly Adobe for creating that non-sensical extra step of 'Make'. Obviously if you set the specified steps, it should automatically 'Make' it. No? Right?

[@namtong577]

So sad that adobe never try to improve the blend shapes function

[@MattBorchert]

Yes, it is impressive, but it also hasn't changed much in quite a few years.