Illustrator 101: Superfast Spacing with the Blend Tool (Video)

September 10, 2009 | Posted in Illustrator | 27 Comments »

Here’s a quick and dirty way to space objects using Illustartor’s Blend tool. Havent done a video in a while, or an Illy post, so it’s back to the basics this week! Hope you like it :)

Illustrator: Blend Tool Spacing from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

Tags: Alignment, Blend tool, Illustrator, spacing

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27 Responses to “Illustrator 101: Superfast Spacing with the Blend Tool (Video)”

Clay Sep 10, 09 at 2:06 pm

You are the Dez Bryant of design. Go Pokes!
kevin falk Sep 10, 09 at 2:33 pm

Good stuff!
frico Sep 10, 09 at 3:26 pm

nice-thanks for the tips
BJN Sep 10, 09 at 5:05 pm

Very useful, thanks!
Steve Mebs Sep 10, 09 at 5:25 pm

awesome tip! I had no idea you could double-click on the tool to bring up the options… I have avoided using the blend tool because I thought you had to go up into the menus to get at its options. thanks.
chad engle Sep 10, 09 at 7:29 pm

Nice tip Jay! I like it. You can also use transform again (under right click or option click) and specify the space that way and then apple + d to repeat it over and over. However that puts you in the same boat as align palette and your option is superior because you can change the settings etc. Kudos
Deb Sep 10, 09 at 8:42 pm

Wow, this is so easy! Thanks for sharing the great tip! RT’d!
CampSafari Sep 11, 09 at 12:16 am

you can also use the transform effect, enter the number of copies and the distance, hit ok, done. it even adjusts when you scale the object and have “scale strokes and effects” enabled. but the blend tool has the advantage that you can align them on a any path…(via replace spine)
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Branden Silva Sep 11, 09 at 4:55 am

Thanks for the tips. I’m bit of an illustrator newb so this kind of stuff is helpful indeed.
Aaron Riddle Sep 11, 09 at 12:07 pm

Wow…nice tip! Never knew about this one, but will definitely use it in the future.
Mark Spencer Sep 12, 09 at 9:01 am

Nice little tip, thanks.
Dan Smith Sep 12, 09 at 2:37 pm

Wow. Thanks for that great tip.
burros Sep 13, 09 at 12:11 pm

NADIE SE LEE LOS MANUALES?
mal Sep 14, 09 at 6:15 am

Love the blend tool…I became obsessed with it after one of your posts on it’s uses from a year or two back. Awesome
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mike Sep 15, 09 at 12:25 pm

Glad you published this. Nice refresher. Funny how one forgets the small tip/tricks after a while of not using them. Thank you!
Rory Tate Sep 15, 09 at 4:21 pm

Very much appreciated. The tip has many potential variations

Thanxs
DbRiders.com Sep 16, 09 at 8:19 am

great post, the blend tool rocks!
Mark Sep 16, 09 at 12:48 pm

Yay, finally another Illy post. I miss the days of Illustrator freebies and whatnot.
hfng Sep 17, 09 at 1:19 am

Thanks for the tutorial. I miss the old bittbox with tutorials and tips. All we get now is free textures.
jeremy darko Sep 20, 09 at 6:54 pm

I actually used this to produce my Twitter background. You can follow me @ jdarko82. Thanks for the tut!
Erick Sep 28, 09 at 10:27 pm

thanks., good tip !
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Lo Oct 8, 09 at 12:42 pm

nice. I think this will be very helpful
Johanna Apr 18, 10 at 10:28 am

Awesome tip, but which button you use when you get off the stripes?
Nush May 27, 10 at 8:50 am

Amazing tip!! thanks