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Blending modes in action

Blending modes in action - Illustrator Tutorial

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Blending modes in action

In this exercise, we are going to explore a few practical applications for the blend modes inside Illustrator. I've reverted to the saved version of Mishipizheu CS5.ai, found inside the 22_transparency folder, and I am going to start things off actually in the layers panel. I am going to turn off all of the layers except the paint layer in the background. This paint layer, by the way, if you twirl it open, it includes the linked image and this linked image is a variation on this really old acrylic version of this artwork that I painted way back when, and then in back of it, if you turn off the image, you will see this kind of frame effect, I will go ahead and zoom out for a moment, so that you can see that there is this brown fill with this larger green fill applied as well. If I find where that path outline is, I don't even know, I'll press Ctrl+Y, Command+Y on the Mac, in order to switch to the outline mode, there it is. I'll click on it to select it, then I will press Ctrl+Y or…

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