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TAN
In a few cases, however, he used Illustrator's more powerful features such as
blends, gradients, and clipping masks. To draw the central grill unit (
Grill Detail
),
Tan drew one vertical column, copied and Shift-dragged it to the opposite side. With
both objects selected he double-clicked the Blend tool to show Options, entered 50
for the Specified Steps, and set the orientation to Align to Page. Selecting the
objects he choose Object> Blend> Make.
Tan began the shadows beneath the passengers using linear
gradients, then within the Appearance panel he selected the fill,
clicked the
fx
icon, and chose Blur> Gaussian Blur. For other
shadows he filled objects with gradients, then reduced the
opacity and changed the blending mode (such as Overlay or
Multiply).
