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Making an opacity mask

Making an opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial

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Making an opacity mask

All right, I'm still working away inside Light reflection.ai, found inside the 22_transparency folder. In this exercise we're going to recreate this reflection effect. And we're going to do so, if you're working along with me by going to the layers panel and turning off the current reflection layer, because as I say we're going to remake it. And then I want you to grab the bulb & lines layer right there, and I want you to drag it onto the little Page icon at the bottom of the layers panel and release in order to create a copy of that layer. Then I'm going to move it down below bulb & lines, and I'm going to double-click on it, so that we can give it a more meaningful name like Reflection 2, because here we are recreating the darn thing. And I'm going to change the Color to Brown, just so that we have a color that's easily recognizable onscreen. I'll click OK in order to create that new item. Now currently the Reflection 2 objects are directly behind the bulb & lines objects; we need…

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