Cannot get Spine to Reverse using Blend Tool

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January 8, 2020
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Howdy,

Hoping someone here can help me. I'm trying to recreate this wave blend. The original is from shutterstock and unfortunately, expanded, making it hard to work with. Our client wants us to move the blue portion of the wave down which is near impossible with the expanded object. So I figured I would take the two paths, recreate the blend, and all would be well, right?

Wrong, because of course it can't be that easy. As you can see when I imitate the two blend paths, and use the blend tool, it blends but in the wrong direction. I've tried changing the path direction, reversing the spine, changing the hierachy of the objects - literally nothing is working and i'm about to tear my hair out. Am I doing something wrong? Or is what I'm trying to do impossible without the original paths?

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Correct answer Monika Gause

With the direct selection tool select the yellow marked anchors. Then with the blend tool click on the 2 marked with the arrows one after the other to create the blend.

Monika Gause

Correct answer

Community Expert

With the direct selection tool select the yellow marked anchors. Then with the blend tool click on the 2 marked with the arrows one after the other to create the blend.

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dataflowcolor06Author

Participant

This was the trick! Thank you so much for taking the time to show that to me, you've saved me and my team from a very large headache.

manal shanableh

Legend

if this happened to me i would create the blend again, its easy.

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dataflowcolor06Author

Participant

as you can see in my post - that's what i've been trying to do, however it is not going in the same "direction" as the original

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

You may want to provide a sample .ai file in case you are allowed to provide it.

This way it would be easier to make a solution that may please you.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

I don't this is about the wrong direction. I rather think that the original artwork has been blended by selecting some reference points. You do that by selecting the same amount of anchors on both paths and then Illustrator focuses on those points when blending.