- [Voiceover] Alright now every one
of the blending functions we've seen so far
allows you to dynamically blend shapes
as well as their fill and stroke attributes.
But there's another function that allows you
to blend the colors entirely by themselves,
and it does so as a static modification.
And we're gonna use that feature
in order to convert this green color scheme
into this warmer scheme right here.
Alright, so, the first thing we need to do
is change the extreme shapes.
That is, the circles located in the corners.
And to be able to do that, I'm gonna have to switch
to the white arrow tool, which of course
you can get by pressing the 'A' key.
And then I'll alt or option click on the outline
of this biggest circle, in the top left corner.
And then you want to click on the
'select similar objects' icon,
on the right side of the control panel.
And if that doesn't quite do the trick,
just make sure that this pop-up menu is set to 'all'.
Alright, so I'll go ahead and click on that icon.
In order to select both of the light green circles,
what we're trying to avoid here
is selecting the white circle in between.
And now I'm gonna change the fill color
from this bright green to RGB yellow.
And notice by the way that this first column of circles
is starting to update automatically,
and that's because they're part of a dynamic blend.
Whereas the central circles up in the top and bottom rows
are just static path outlines.
So they are not going to update.
Alright, now you want to click in this outer circle
in the top right corner, and then click on the
'select similar objects' icon again.
This time you'll select four circles:
the two in the top right corner,
and the two in the bottom left corner.
Now, go ahead and bring up the fill swatches
and select the shade of orange that begins R=251
in order to produce this effect here.
And again, the first column updates,
so does the last column,
but the ones in between remain unchanged.
Alright, finally, go ahead and click
in this big green circle in the bottom right corner,
and again click that 'select similar objects' icon.
And this time, let's change the fill
to the shade of red right there that begins R=237
in order to update that final column like so.
Alright, now we need to update the columns in between,
and you can do that by pressing the alt key,
or the option key on a Mac,
and I want you to draw a long, but very shallow selection.
You don't want to go into the white circles, in other words.
You just want to capture the outermost circles,
so you're going to have to create
a very small marquee indeed in order to select
all of these top circles like so.
Then, go up to the edit menu, choose 'edit colors',
and choose 'blend horizontally' in order to update
those static path outlines in between,
which begins to update the circles in the center
because they're part of the dynamic blend.
Alright, now let's go down to the bottom here,
and again press the alt key, or the option key on a Mac,
so you see a little plus sign
next to your cursor, and drag like so.
This time your marquee can be a little bit taller,
'cause you have more room to work.
But you want to select all those
outermost circles in the bottom row.
And then, again go to the edit menu,
choose 'edit colors', and choose 'blend horizontally'
in order to update all those outermost circles.
Alright, now we need to select the inner circles,
which is a little bit painful by the way,
because we're going to have to do a lot of clicking.
So, click in that yellow circle, then press the shift key
and click in each one of the other ones.
And I wish I could tell you there's and easier way to work,
but there really isn't.
Just go ahead and shift click inside
all of those inner circles in the top row, just the top row.
Then return to the edit menu, choose 'edit colors',
and choose 'blend horizontally'
in order to update those guys.
And now, for the really painful part.
You might as well start over here,
'cause he's the hardest to select.
Click on that tiny little guy there,
and then shift click in each other other ones,
and they're getting bigger and bigger
so that should make for some easier selecting,
but make sure you're just selecting the innermost circles
and you've got the shift key down the whole time
so that you're adding to the selection.
And then you go to the edit menu for the final time,
choose 'edit colors', and choose 'blend horizontally'
in order to update all of those circles.
And then you can click off of them to de-select them.
And that is how you blend colors, and nothing but colors.
By going to the edit menu, choosing 'edit colors',
And in our case we used 'blend horizontally',
but you also have 'blend vertically'
if you needed to work on the other axis,
as well as 'blend front to back'.