From the course: Designing a Typographic Grunge Poster
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Adding the opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Typographic Grunge Poster
Adding the opacity mask
On the left our work in progress, on the right our finished version. To finish this up what we're going to do is take the word communication and make it into an opacity mask for the symbol background so that we see the shapes of the letters reversing out off that jumble of broken type. Okay. I'm going to consolidate the view. So that we can concentrate just on this document. And then come to the layers panel. So I want to, open up the layers panel so that we can see. These two groups that make up the communication layer. I'm going to select both of those and we'll make the color of those black and then we'll cut them from that layer and that layer we can now throw away. We're now going to use those two words contents of our clipboard as an opacity mask for the symbols. Now currently we had the symbols on two separate layers, so I'm going to consolidate them into one. I'll select the bottom symbol group and then move that to the top. We can also throw. That now blank layer away and…
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