- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you
how to align your intervals with the angle of the spine,
which as you may recall, is the path of the blend
in order to create a kind of fan effect
in which these blue shafts of light are bending outward
as if they're iminating from the bird himself.
Alright so I'll go ahead and switch over to my file so far,
and just so I can find that spine, I'll press Control+Y
or Command+Y on the Mac in order
to switch to the outline mode.
And I know it's a little bit confusing
to see all these path outlines,
but if you press the A key, in order to switch to
the wide arrow tool, and you click on
this guy right there, this horizontal line,
that is the spine for this particular blend.
Alright I'm gonna zoom out, by pressing Control+-
or Command+- on a Mac, and you can see
the path outline begins over here in this left hand path
and ends over here in the right hand path.
Alright having selected it, I'll go ahead and press
Control+Y or Command+Y on the Mac
to switch back to the much more appealing preview mode.
And then, I'll go to the pen tool fly-out menu,
and I'll select the Anchor Point Tool
from the bottom of the list.
And I'll start things off by dragging out
from this first anchor point, in order to
create a control handle, and then I'll drag
from the second one to add a control handle to it as well.
Now where exactly to put these handles
is a little bit of a mystery.
Which is why we're going to set up a guideline.
And we're gonna do that by first,
turning on the guide's layer down here
at the bottom of the stack.
Then, I want you to go ahead and select that layer,
and now get the rectangle tool,
which you can get by pressing the M key;
and just go ahead and click
any old place inside the document window,
in order to bring up the rectangle dialogue box.
And I'm looking for a width value of 300 pts
and a height value of 100 pts.
At which point I'll click OK, in order to create that shape.
Now go ahead and select the black arrow tool,
which you can get by pressing the V key.
And drag this center point here, but first
make sure that the Smart Guides are turned on.
Which in my case they aren't because
I get a ton of flashing on screen when they are,
And now I'll go ahead and scroll up a little bit
and I'll drag this guy up until he snaps into alignment
with both the center guides, so that vertical guideline
as well as the top of the bleed.
Now what you want to do is right click
anywhere inside the document window and choose Make Guides.
In order to turn that guy into a custom guideline.
Alright now we need to locate this spine once again,
and I have found it, I'll just go ahead and click on it.
Even though I'm working with the black arrow tool
it should work out okay, and then I'll switch
to the white arrow tool,
which I can get by pressing the A key.
And I'll click this anchor point over here
on the left hand side of the spine
and then I'll drag his handle until it snaps into alignment
with the top left corner of that rectangular guide.
And now I'll grab this handle and snap it into alignment
with the top right corner of that rectangular guide.
Alright now as you can see the angle
of every single one of these intervals is unmodified.
So even though they're going higher and higher
inside the document their angle is not changing.
If that's not what you want, if you want to rotate
your intervals along the spine
then go up to the Object Menu, choose Blend
and choose Blend Options.
And then notice this orientation icon
by default it's set to align to page.
What we want to do is set it to align to path instead
and then go ahead and turn on a preview check box,
and we get the fanning effect we're looking for,
at which point, go ahead and click OK to accept that change.
Now obviously we've lifted the blend way too high,
and to correct for that I want you to press the V key
to switch to switch to the black arrow tool.
And then go ahead and click on one of these white
shapes here in order to select that big, compound shape.
And then Shift Click on the trees
to add them to the selection and go up to the Object menu,
choose Lock and choose Selection
where you have a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+2
or Command+2 on a Mac.
Alright now, press the A key to
switch to the white arrow tool.
Let's go ahead and zoom on in as well,
and what we're looking for is these guys right here.
So we want the two anchor points at the bottom
of this path and you can get to them if you like
now that everything is locked down
just by marqueeing like so, and then press the Shift key
and marquee these two anchor points as well to select them.
Alright now drag the top anchor point, this guy right there
or this one, doesn't matter; drag it down
and press the shift key as you drag
to constrain the angle of your drag to exactly vertical,
until you snap into alignment
with that horizontal center guide.
At which point you'll get this effect right here,
and now you can pres CTRL+Shift+A or Command+Shift+A
on the Mac to deselect your artwork,
and I'm also going to press CTRL+U or Command+U
on the Mac in order to hide the Smart Guides,
and I'll turn off the Guides layer as well.
And that's how you fan out the intervals
in your blend by aligning the intervals
to the angle of the spine, here inside Illustrator.