From the course: Illustrator: Seeing Through Transparency
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Deconstructing the Transparency panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Seeing Through Transparency
Deconstructing the Transparency panel
A lot of our discussion over the next two chapters are going to revolve around the Transparency panel inside of Illustrator. Now normally I'll just tell you that I don't have the Transparency panel always available inside of Illustrator or always visible. And that's because there are other ways to get at the Transparency panel when you need it. For example, if you look over here inside of my control panel there is the word Opacity and if I click on that the Transparency panel appears in its full expanded state. Likewise, if I look over here in my Appearance panel, which is really the core area where I always look to apply settings inside of Illustrator anyway, you can see that for any object I'm going to have a default Opacity value and if I click on the word Opacity here I actually will bring up the Transparency panel here as well. I can also do so for each fill and for each stroke again by just clicking on the word Opacity. So I have many places to get at the Transparency panel when…
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Deconstructing the Transparency panel7m 48s
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Adding transparency to gradients4m 59s
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Using the Isolate Blending setting5m 20s
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Understanding how overprints and knockouts work6m 26s
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Using the Knockout Group setting6m 47s
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Using the Knockout Group setting without a group6m 2s
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Understanding the Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape setting4m 58s
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