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I am trying to blend my text like this:
But it ends up looking like this:
I've been using the blend tool. Have played with specified distance as well as steps, and nothing I've tried has given me a smooth blend. If the second text I am combining doesn't have any opacity then I don't get this jagged blend. What am I doing wrong??
if its the same retro look you are after
you could draw several extrude shapes with the pen tool from the letters
add a filled rectangle for background
fill the extrude shapes with a gradient red for first stop, last stop transparency set to zero -or near
Then use slight variations of the gradient angle, sliders and settings for each shape
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Part of this might be caused by GPU preview. Try View > Preview on CPU.
Also: distance between to objects might be too large.
And stacking order also looks wrong.
You might also try this approach, which after expanding the effect will provide you with clean shapes that you can then color with gradients to achieve the result you want.
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May be the reason is in the position of bottom text try to move it to the left as I done for covering separate letters blends. It also depend on font
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if its the same retro look you are after
you could draw several extrude shapes with the pen tool from the letters
add a filled rectangle for background
fill the extrude shapes with a gradient red for first stop, last stop transparency set to zero -or near
Then use slight variations of the gradient angle, sliders and settings for each shape
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Make your Blend as you are currently doing it.
Then copy and paste the top type object in front (Cmd/Control + F) of itself and change it's Tint in the Color panel to separate it from the Blend.
See attached.
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Just add a stroke to the text and then it shpuld blend properly...
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I think I may have solved it. So you select the text, go to Type, and Create Outlines. Now you should be able to make blend for the text. Then just adjust the specified text to your liking.