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Making an opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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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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