Try to Blend In

This tutorial was copied from one of my earlier conversations and was done in Illustrator -- I have NO idea if this can even be done in Photoshop ...

Set things up according the rockstarkate's tutorial and I'm using a 300 x 350 artboard. I've made my palettes 300 x 75 (just a random height that I picked -- I haven't played around with different heights yet). If the screenshots are hard to read, just click them for the full size image.



I selected the blend tool and started clicking starting with the bottom right cube to top right cube ...



I then pick the next bottom cube ...



Then the next top cube ...



Keep alternating between bottom and top until I get to the end ...



To correct the jagged edges on my blends, I double click the blend tool which brings up the following dialog box ...



In the spacing dropdown, I select "Specified Distance" and, making sure the "Preview" box is checked, I play around with the distance -- in this case I set it to 1 px.



Depending where you start, you can get different effects -- but I recommend that it be from one of the ends since it can get a bit difficult to pick something that's covered up. You can also skip a color, but again, it may be hard to find the color that was covered up.

GreenMyEyes suggested that you change the view to outline mode to pick up a tough to reach color ... View > Outline

After I originally wrote this tutorial, I found out that you can switch back to front, and vice versa, using the menu dropdown found under Object > Blends >

I also discovered that if you set the blend tool to "Specified Distance" prior to creating your blends it will stay that way and you won't have to adjust them with every blend until you exit Illustrator.

Thanks for sharing and reposting! I'm making this a sticky :)