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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you



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how to align your intervals

with the angle of the spine,



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which as you may recall,

is the path of the blend



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in order to create a kind of fan effect



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in which these blue shafts

of light are bending outward



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as if they're iminating

from the bird himself.



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Alright so I'll go ahead and

switch over to my file so far,



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and just so I can find that

spine, I'll press Control+Y



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or Command+Y on the Mac in order



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to switch to the outline mode.



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And I know it's a little bit confusing



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to see all these path outlines,



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but if you press the A

key, in order to switch to



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the wide arrow tool, and you click on



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this guy right there,

this horizontal line,



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that is the spine for

this particular blend.



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Alright I'm gonna zoom

out, by pressing Control+-



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or Command+- on a Mac, and you can see



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the path outline begins over

here in this left hand path



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and ends over here in the right hand path.



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Alright having selected

it, I'll go ahead and press



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Control+Y or Command+Y on the Mac



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to switch back to the much

more appealing preview mode.



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And then, I'll go to the

pen tool fly-out menu,



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and I'll select the Anchor Point Tool



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from the bottom of the list.



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And I'll start things off by dragging out



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from this first anchor point, in order to



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create a control handle,

and then I'll drag



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from the second one to add a

control handle to it as well.



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Now where exactly to put these handles



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is a little bit of a mystery.



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Which is why we're going

to set up a guideline.



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And we're gonna do that by first,



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turning on the guide's layer down here



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at the bottom of the stack.



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Then, I want you to go

ahead and select that layer,



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and now get the rectangle tool,



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which you can get by pressing the M key;



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and just go ahead and click



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any old place inside the document window,



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in order to bring up the

rectangle dialogue box.



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And I'm looking for a

width value of 300 pts



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and a height value of 100 pts.



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At which point I'll click OK,

in order to create that shape.



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Now go ahead and select

the black arrow tool,



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which you can get by pressing the V key.



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And drag this center point here, but first



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make sure that the Smart

Guides are turned on.



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Which in my case they aren't because



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I get a ton of flashing

on screen when they are,



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And now I'll go ahead and

scroll up a little bit



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and I'll drag this guy up

until he snaps into alignment



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with both the center guides,

so that vertical guideline



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as well as the top of the bleed.



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Now what you want to do is right click



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anywhere inside the document

window and choose Make Guides.



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In order to turn that guy

into a custom guideline.



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Alright now we need to

locate this spine once again,



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and I have found it, I'll

just go ahead and click on it.



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Even though I'm working

with the black arrow tool



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it should work out okay,

and then I'll switch



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to the white arrow tool,



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which I can get by pressing the A key.



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And I'll click this anchor point over here



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on the left hand side of the spine



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and then I'll drag his handle

until it snaps into alignment



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with the top left corner

of that rectangular guide.



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And now I'll grab this handle

and snap it into alignment



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with the top right corner

of that rectangular guide.



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Alright now as you can see the angle



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of every single one of these

intervals is unmodified.



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So even though they're

going higher and higher



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inside the document their

angle is not changing.



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If that's not what you

want, if you want to rotate



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your intervals along the spine



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then go up to the Object

Menu, choose Blend



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and choose Blend Options.



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And then notice this orientation icon



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by default it's set to align to page.



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What we want to do is set

it to align to path instead



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and then go ahead and turn

on a preview check box,



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and we get the fanning

effect we're looking for,



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at which point, go ahead and

click OK to accept that change.



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Now obviously we've lifted

the blend way too high,



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and to correct for that I

want you to press the V key



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to switch to switch to

the black arrow tool.



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And then go ahead and

click on one of these white



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shapes here in order to select

that big, compound shape.



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And then Shift Click on the trees



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to add them to the selection

and go up to the Object menu,



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choose Lock and choose Selection



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where you have a keyboard

shortcut of Ctrl+2



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or Command+2 on a Mac.



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Alright now, press the A key to



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switch to the white arrow tool.



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Let's go ahead and zoom on in as well,



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and what we're looking for

is these guys right here.



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So we want the two anchor

points at the bottom



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of this path and you can

get to them if you like



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now that everything is locked down



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just by marqueeing like so,

and then press the Shift key



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and marquee these two anchor

points as well to select them.



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Alright now drag the top anchor

point, this guy right there



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or this one, doesn't matter; drag it down



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and press the shift key as you drag



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to constrain the angle of

your drag to exactly vertical,



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until you snap into alignment



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with that horizontal center guide.



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At which point you'll get

this effect right here,



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and now you can pres

CTRL+Shift+A or Command+Shift+A



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on the Mac to deselect your artwork,



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and I'm also going to

press CTRL+U or Command+U



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on the Mac in order to

hide the Smart Guides,



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and I'll turn off the

Guides layer as well.



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And that's how you fan out the intervals



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in your blend by aligning the intervals



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to the angle of the spine,

here inside Illustrator.