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Introducing the opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Introducing the opacity mask
In this exercise I'm going to introduce you to the final transparency feature, as well as the one that consumes the most space here inside the Transparency panel, and that's the Opacity Mask. And an Opacity Mask is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, but that's probably not all that helpful. An Opacity Mask is an item, a group of objects that determines the opacity of an entire group or layer, that you've got selected inside of Illustrator. And so essentially black indicates transparency, and white indicates opacity, and then you can create for example gradient fades across an entire layer. Some very, very powerful features we're about to see. And if you're familiar with Photoshop, it's analogous to Photoshop's layer masks. It's just that you can apply them to more than a layer, which is why it has that different name. Anyway I've got opened this file called Light reflection.ai, that's found inside the 22_transparency folder. And note what we have here is, its variation on the…
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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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