From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Blending modes in action - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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The many forms of transparency1m 29s
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Real-world blending modes7m 57s
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Exporting transparency from Illustrator6m 24s
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Opacity and blending modes6m 18s
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The Darken and Lighten modes7m 17s
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The Contrast, Inversion, and HSL modes6m 12s
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Blending modes in action5m 11s
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Creating a knockout group6m 13s
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Confirming the viability of your artwork6m 8s
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Introducing the opacity mask4m 6s
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Making an opacity mask5m 25s
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Drawing inside an opacity mask3m 33s
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Creating a gradient opacity mask5m 29s
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Adding an opacity mask to a single object3m 22s
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