How to Repeat Any Shape Along Any Path 

From one designer to another: I really enjoy your tutorials, thank you for taking the time to make them!

I've been banging my head against the desk for the past several hours trying to figure out how to repeat lightbulbs along a path. Yours is the first tutorial I've found that makes any sense. Thanks!

This is still an elegant solution 8 years later! Thank you!

I said "YOU CAN DO THAT" so many times while watching this lol I need to see your other videos now!!

Hello Teela, OMG - thank you - so easy now. Just discovered your tutorial series today and they are fabulous. Easy to follow and saved so much time.

Thank you! I know i've done this before but it's been a while, thanks for the refresh! Very clear teaching style

Thanks! I found this really useful for printing alignment marks for the webbing on a backpack shoulder strap along a path.

Thank you so much! I love that you make it easy for us to understand how to go about doing it (:

Love & Respect from INDIA.. ur tutorials are wonderful.

I just discovered the power of the blend tool a few weeks ago. So many things you can do with it! Where has this been all my life! :p

what i like about your tutorial is you get the message across efficiently. e.g.: you didn't spend a lot of time on drawing a nice path (which is not necessary). You just need a path to show how we do the blend and replace spine function. Some tutorials, they would spend a long time doing a nice path which is not the point of the tutorial.

Thanks for the super helpful + design-made-easy tips!

Thanks Teela! Very easy to understand even for a beginnner like me!

Woww! Watching you using Adobe Illustrator denotes how skilled you're. I learned lots of new tips and tricks while you were explaining the main topic. Thank you! :)

How would you go about repeating an array of object of equal distribution along an oval? This particular problem has me really perplexed.

You are a NINJA .. I love your videos.. thank you!

Precisely what I needed. Thanks!

Thanks! You made my day :) I'm working on a project and I need this function!

i took information of illustrator with your lesson thankyou somuch and dhave nice day

So happy I found your channel! Already learned many different, easier ways to do many time-consuming tasks! Thank you so much!!

Hey Uma! I'm not getting the reply option to your comment so in case you come back, hopefully you'll see this :) You'll want to use a pattern brush for closed paths - this technique is best used for open paths (like those drawn in the video). Here's a pattern brush tutorial that'll help with that rectangle: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-12xTvfuXEHQ.html

so helpful thank you

Thank you for your kind help !

Thanks so much for the tips. They are cool

your videos are great. easy to follow.

Great tut! Don't forget that you can add anchor points on the path to even out the shapes. ;)

How can i make the distance to each object same? I tried it with circles along a form, but the circles keep overlapping.

Voice sounds familiar, i learned a ton from a skill share class i took of yours. Want to say thank you, love to learn quick tricks and tips.

Firstly, thanks for posting...really useful. Quick question...how do I create a line of the same shape (like a circle) but going from small to bigger and then when blended (say 10 shapes in total, going from small to large), the space between each shape is exactly the same? I'm stumped!

Another helpful tutorial. Thank you!!!

Thank you!

Amazing!!!!! It was a revealing tip Teela!

This is pretty cool! Thank you for this tutorial :)

thank youuuuu

Great tutorial!

great tutorial, very helpful!

Thanks so much for this! Very cool!

Thank you for your Awsme Tuts..And i subscribed ur channel while i saw ur first video.

Great tip thanks!

Hey Cool. Thanks for this!

awesome tutorial! very handy, thanks alot :')

But I'm curious how can I adjust the position of the shapes if they are specific in how they should be aligned along a path?

So, how do we repeat any shape along any path in even intervals?

good tutorial, but how can i get the same distance between every star/dot/etc.? I need to get 50 circles on a path but without any space between them.

Hi thanks for the info. Repeating shapes is one thing but how would you align any set of shapes along a path. That is shapes you didn't create with a blend? for instance exaggerated individual eyelashes along the curve of an eye lid rim

HI, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR AMAZING TUTORIAL I WAS WONDER IF YOU PLEASE APPLY THIS LESSON ON PATTERN PAISLEY

Excellent!

Thank you

how can we make copy, I am not getting this????

Thanks girl!

Thanks!! You saved a live ;)

Hi thank you for the tutorial. It helped me a bit. But i have one question. I try to make a patter to use for Leather design. The leather are square, with punched hole in it. I can do this manually but to get accuracy i would like to make a pattern insted. With your tutorial I could make holes on top and the bottom. The holes who are on the sides hovever should be 22 but I only got 7 as the same amount of holes on top and bottom. Do you have a tip for solving this?

Hello thanks for this video! Referring to the first action of your tutorial, on my computer when I blend the shapes get smaller towards the middle then bigger again, I am not managing to keep the shape the same size betwen the first one and the last one.. why is that? :(

Hi Teela!! I'm Rocío. I have a doubt. I'm trying to create a brush sample with two flowers, coloured and with gradients. Illustrator tell me that gradients can not be used like this. How can i fix this? sorry for my english and thanks a lot!!

thanks you

Love it!

How do you get them to be evenly spaced out?

stoked

hello! do you know how to do this same thing but not all across the line but only on a certain part of the path? Thanks a lot for sharing ;)

I've been trying to do this for days in Inkscape! (Sorry, can't afford Illustrator.) I've been Bending, Distributing Along Path (extension), Pattern Along Path (Live Path Effect), and my poking and the Inkscape forum (so far) has failed to yield the answer. Does anyone here know how to do this in Inkscape without distorting my objects? Thank you in advance!

Isnt there a procedural way to do this? Would be nice to just make a shape, attach in to a stroke, and then use a slider to determine distance and quantity. I mean its a lot of trial and error doing it the blend way if your after a specific result. thanks anyway, if you come across a more procedural method id love to hear it!

Thanks Teela for your easy-to-follow tut. But my "Replace spine" is grey out even though I chose both objects. I tried to draw just a simple line (for a new spine) but it still doesnt work. Please help!

It seems like it doesn't apply to zig-zag...How do I make even wave lines?

is there a way to rotate an object around an oval evenly?

Teela It's possible that the distance is my wish

why when i blend the shape changes? i want it to be the same shape

thanks alot

Is there a way to do this with Text? So I can make text using stars?

how do you evenly space shapes??

:/ okay but use a rectangle and tell me how i can make a dotted path with rectangles where they rotate around and flow with the line rather than all facing horizontally

Where is the blend tool in Photoshop 2023?

how do i make evenly spread?

nice

Is this for illustrator?

thanks but what about if i want to make every shape a different espicific color?

🙏!!!!!

Can you do it on text.?

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wwwwwww nice

Thank you!

thank you