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Canvas 12 User Guide - ACDSee

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<strong>Canvas</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Artists often use blends to create highlights and shadows in vector drawings that provide the illusion<br />

of roundness and lighting. In addition, use blends to copy and evenly distribute objects around<br />

shapes to create borders.<br />

To blend objects:<br />

1. Select two or more vector objects.<br />

2. Choose Effects | Blend.<br />

3. Configure the settings.<br />

4. Click Apply.<br />

Blend Object options<br />

# of shapes The number of objects <strong>Canvas</strong> creates for the blend. Higher numbers<br />

result in smoother blends.<br />

Rainbow colors Creates a rainbow-like blend of colors between objects. This introduces<br />

more color variations than a standard blend, which uses only<br />

combinations of the original colors. When you turn on this option, two<br />

buttons appear; choose a clockwise or counter-clockwise path around<br />

the color wheel.<br />

Bind to a path Select to use the path of an object (not in the current selection) to<br />

arrange blend objects. Click Apply and then you have to choose a path.<br />

Click the object to which you want to bind the blend objects.<br />

Point to point Available when blending two objects. This option lets you rotate blend<br />

objects, creating the illusion that one object is twisting into another.<br />

When you click Apply, <strong>Canvas</strong> prompts you to Choose 1st Point; click an<br />

anchor point on one object. <strong>Canvas</strong> then prompts you to Choose 2nd<br />

Point; click an anchor point on the other object. To reverse the blend<br />

direction, Ctrl-click when you choose the two points.<br />

Dynamic Lets you use the Direct Selection tool (hollow arrow) to accelerate,<br />

decelerate, expand, contract, and redirect the blend after <strong>Canvas</strong><br />

creates it. Dynamic blends aren’t available for specialized objects, such<br />

as multigons, spirals, concentric circles, and grids.<br />

Using blends for dimensional effects<br />

By specifying a high number of blend objects, you can create gradual transitions between shapes<br />

and colors. With the appropriate settings, colors seem to fade and mix into each other, and the blend<br />

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