wow that was pretty straight-forward other youtubers need to understand we need videos to be straight-forward like this, we haven't got all day to watch videos. thank you so much Helen this video saved me alot of time :)
@@HelenBradley quick question. Is there a way to scale down the shapes with its fixed proportion along the path? Tried it for some star shapes and it keeps giving me distorted star shapes 🫤
This is a really good question. I suggest you take a look at this video as it explains a possible solution to the problem of shapes distorting along a path. While it is not exactly on point, you could probably adapt this solution to your blend - but use lines for the blend and then apply the brush to the lines once they are expanded: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IyWRZ9TTVZw.html
Great news Michael. Thank you for taking the time to comment. I used to find this a bit cumbersome to do, but once you've done it a few times it really becomes second nature and it saves so much time when working with curved lines. I wish you all the best with your new Illustrator skills.
'Spectacularly unsuccessful' LOL! Loving your tuts. I prefer indeed when there is no music, for I consider it distracting. You are also straight to the point and such clearness in your voice... I wonder which accent is it? Keep the good job! Best from Rio!
Hola Rio! I am Australian so that's where the accent is from although I live in the US. I am so glad that you enjoy the videos and thank you for taking the time to tell me :) I hate music on videos when I watch them so not including them in my videos is a choice I make to spare you from the same annoyance! I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week.
What if the line is, let’s say a stem and the pattern are the leaves, they are perpendicular to the stem and decreasing size. Thanks very much for the tutorial, it is gold.
In illustrator it is possible to make a path into a guide. What I would do is make a duplicate of the path itself and then go to the View menu and create a guide from that path. Then you should be able to align objects to the path so you’d be aligning the bottom of an object presumably to the path which is now a guide. If you still have questions let me know what isn’t working for you and I’ll have a look at it.
How do you do this without a blended shape, though? I have an expanded shape that isn't made from a blend and I need to bend it around an S Curve..can't find a solution to this yet and I've been looking everywhere. thanks!
The only thing I can think of is to make it into an Art Brush and try that. It will distort around the S curve but that might work for you? Check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yi5-J5gEMQM.html
Thanks for this great lesson. I'm not even doing the shapes along a bent path but I wanted to blend 8 triangles from large to small. I did the blend with 8 triangles but they aren't spaced out how I would like, they either overlap or have gaps. I wanted each triangle touching but not overlapping. I tried moving an individual triangle but it is grouped together as a path I guess. I tried ungrouping it so I could manually move it but It says in object that it is isn't grouped so no ungroup option
So, here's what you do. Make your 8 triangles and arrange them in the order you want them to be in. Then select them all and click on one to make it the key object - it should have a darker color around it. Open the align panel and set it to Align to key object. Then use the Distribute Spacing option set to 0 (vertical or horizontal as appropriate) to position them so they have 0 spacing between them. Let me know if you still have problems? I think it's a great question so I will soon make a video for you for this channel to answer this.
@@HelenBradley I'm glad that you do this beautiful work...Your lessons are pretty clear and easy to follow...thanks...I'll watch every single one of them...
Great question Riyancie. Unfortunately it isn't that easy to do - especially if the shapes are different sizes. Is that what you are trying to do? Are your blended shapes different sizes?
@@HelenBradley I've been experimenting on both, even sized and differently sized. ( I must tell you that I am not a designer but a beginner at AI). I found if the shapes are say progressing or diminishing in size, the "appearance" of uneven distribution is more. But actually its not that they are uneven. If you take the midpoints of shapes they ARE evenly distributed. So I guess there should be a workaround to distribute shapes based on the outer edges, while keeping the path intact. It seems not possible in AI. But I am on the lookout for a plugin or any other workaround. Any advice Helen?
You are exactly right - the spacing is calculated with reference to midpoints and not the edges so, if the shapes change in size along the spine, they are spread out further or squashed up. Right now I have no solution to this issue but I know a lot of people are looking for one so if I find one or work it out, I'll let you know.
@@riyanciemathews3190 I had the same problem. I ended up doing that manually. :( Now I'm wondering if the distribute spacing option in the align panel would've worked
Isn't it awesome Felicity? It is called Crushed. Best of all it is a free font - here's the link to download it for PC and Mac: www.1001freefonts.com/crushed.font Enjoy! And thanks for stopping by my channel
No, it won't generally work for photos, sorry. Photos aren't typically something that Illustrator can handle. You can do it in Photoshop however, if you have a recent version which includes the new Pattern Scripting tool.
Hi Helen. Can you help me solve a problem regarding patterns along path? I want to create a globe icon like this: ibb.co/jgKFv8 But I used the blend tool with "replace spine" and the result was terrible like this: ibb.co/iXB9oT. In particular, the marks along the round curve looks nothing like it's supposed to be. I was able to do that with pattern brush, but I remember someone using the blend tool and it works just like the first image. Wonder if you can see what the problem is?
You are half way there - so keep what you have. Open your Layers palette and select the blend. Double click the Blend tool and locate the icon for 'Align to Path' - there are two choices - align to path and align to page - you want align to path. Then, in the Layers palette, inside the blend group will be your two lines and the path you are using as your spine. Click to select only one of the lines and now use the Selection tool to slowly rotate it - by rotating each line - 180 degrees you will find a point at which all your lines are facing the right direction - just test it out! I just did it while checking my instructions for you and it worked just perfectly. Check out the 'before' in the top left and the 'after' in the bottom right: ibb.co/exbrso I hope this helps you?
