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About blending
The Adobe Illustrator blend tool lets you
create a series of intermediate objects
and colors between two selected
objects. You can blend between two
open paths (such as two different lines),
or between two closed paths (such as a
circle and a square). Depending on the
way you paint the objects you are blend-
ing, you can produce airbrush effects
such as complex shading, highlighting,
and contouring.
One of the simplest uses for the blend
tool is to create and distribute shapes
evenly between two objects. For exam-
ple, you can create a series of evenly
spaced bars by using the blend tool.
Two objects selected