From the course: Illustrator: Seeing Through Transparency

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Transparency...it's everywhere

Transparency...it's everywhere

Back when transparency was first introduced in Illustrator 9, many printers advised the design community to simply avoid using transparency features altogether. In other words, it was okay to use newer versions of Illustrator, but it was not okay to use the transparency features that were found in those versions. In my opinion, that wasn't really such good advice. This is because most people hold the belief that a document only uses transparency if you've applied Opacity or Blend Mode settings from the Transparency panel. But in truth transparency is less of a feature inside of Illustrator and more of an underlying technology. In other words, transparency itself is used whenever you perform any of the following functions. For example, when you place an image such as a native PSD or Photoshop file that contains transparent content; you apply a blend mode to a fill, stroke, an object, group, or layer; or you apply an opacity value to a fill, stroke, object, group, or layer; if you add…

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