Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Creating smooth-color blends

You can choose several options for blending the shapes and colors of objects to create a new object. When you choose the smooth-color blend option, Illustrator combines the shapes and colors of the objects into many intermediate steps, creating a smooth graduated blend between the original objects.

For an example of smooth-color blends, see figure 8-1 in the color section.

Now you'll combine the two inner shapes of the bowl into a smooth-color blend.

1.	Select the selection tool (), click the smallest shape inside the ...