Trying to recreate a colour blend within a text - stumped.

[puw]

I am trying to replicate a fill within a text that has 3 colours, image one is the original.

Image 2 is the best I've got up to now, but I'm still a long way off understanding how to blend, control the colours to only 3 and make the band thickness's as can be seen.

What I am doing is:

1 - creating an oblong shape and duplicating (the blend tool seems only to work with 2 - I initially tried/had 5; red, orange, yellow, pale yellow, green)
2 - one shape is red, the other green
3 - select and blend, increase the steps, select rainbow, use position and attribute profiles to try and fine tune/position etc
4 - create a bitmap copy
5 - select text, select fill tool, select bitmap, select copy from 4 above

I have tried different heights/thickness's of the oblongs.
I have tried adding space between them, to see how that affects the end result.
I have tried manoeuvring the right angled arrows but this always has a negative effect

The blend in image 2 introduces orange which I don't want and the yellow middle is not high/thick enough. Only the green looks nearly right.

How can I easily control the colours required and their thickness's please?

Perhaps I am using the wrong tool or perhaps another program deals with this better?

Thanks you in advance for your help.

[puw]

I might have come up with a workaround:



I've taken the original blend and kept the position and attribute profiles at zero, and then added a 3rd rectangle shape on top, positioned centrally, coloured yellow, added 25% transparency, played with the thickness, then created the bitmap copy and applied.

[Albacore]

Why not use colour Gradients instead of Blends. Just took about 2 secs to do this but it's easier to do. You might be wanting to learn how to blend and a great place is at the Xone have a look here, the only thing it is on strokes; http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook14/page_3.htm

[PhilM]

Yes, grad fills are the way to do this and you can drag two yellow colours onto the graduation line to get the flat yellow section in the middle.

Phil

[puw]

I've tried the gradient linear simple fade fill effect, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Yes this is good to have the ability to choose 4 colours, I've learnt something I didn't know here too

However, to get the centre thickness right, the top and bottom colours lose their impact, because the centre band becomes 'neon' like shining, even when I go into the Pantone CMYK Uncoated and select a fairly pale yellow. The brilliance applied to the centre band due the thickness required, just takes away the red and green. So for now, I have to play around with my workaround.

Thanks guys, I do appreciate your input

[mwenz]

A printed graphic will always look a tad grainier than a "fresh" vector graphic on-screen.

What you won't easily obtain the the slight grainy transition between the stops, but likely can with filters. Or post export editing in a bitmap editor to add grain.

In any case, multiple stops along the gradient path works fine.

[mwenz]

Here I exported as a transparent PNG and added a bit of grain effect in an image editor.

Mike

[Hajeem]

Why not use colour Gradients instead of Blends. Just took about 2 secs to do this but it's easier to do. You might be wanting to learn how to blend and a great place is at the Xone have a look here, the only thing it is on strokes; http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook14/page_3.htm

Hi Albacore!

Thank you for pointing out the workbooks. I learn a lot from doing excercises. Sometimes the information in the youtube clips go too fast for me because there is such a lot to see. Could you point me to more workbooks? Is there a workbooksection that I can access?

Hélène

[puw]

Sometimes the information in the youtube clips go too fast for me because there is such a lot to see

I agree Hajeem, they do sometimes

[Hajeem]

Found them