2013

Blends 243
Blend color effect
Position profile
Attribute profile
1:1 node mapping
Anti-alias blend steps
Blend along a curve
Rotate blend steps along the curve
STEPS is the number of intermediate stages in the blend. At lower settings the
individual steps are apparent. This is useful for object transforms. At higher settings
the steps merge together. This is more suitable for highlight effects. Experience shows
that you rarely need more than 50 steps even in a complex blend.
The two objects can have different numbers of control handles and can be different
types (for example, shapes to lines).
When MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 blends, it has to have a "start" handle on
one object that maps onto an equivalent "start" handle on the other object.
If you create a blend by dragging from the filled
interior of one shape to the other, then MAGIX Page &
Layout Designer 2013 will automatically choose the
bottom-left control handles to match. However, you
can force a blend to use any control handle as the
starting handle by dragging exactly from one control
handle to another.
Blending between different control handles gives
different blend patterns.
A second way to adjust the blend is
to add control handles to one object.
The left-hand example is a blend
between two triangles. The right-
hand example has an extra control
handle in the lower triangle. The
blend was then made to that control
handle.
A third way is using the
1 TO 1 NODE MAPPING button.
This only has an effect if the two objects have the same number of control
handles. Usually Page & Layout Designer adds or removes handles as
necessary to transform one shape into another.
When blending with shapes that have the same number of handles (such as copies or
duplicates) this can sometimes produce strange results. In this situation, the
1:1