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Blending between levels of opacity

Blending between levels of opacity - Illustrator Tutorial

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Blending between levels of opacity

I have saved my progress as Blended bat wings.ai, and in this exercise I am going to demonstrate how you can blend not only between different colors of fills or strokes inside of Illustrator, but also between different levels of opacity. So I am going to scroll over here until I find this region. So notice that I have got a few things going on actually here and let me make sure that this layer is unlocked, it is locked. It's the star layer that contains the objects that we are seeing onscreen. So I need to unlock that layer so I can gain access to the items it contains. Then I'm going to click in the upper right-hand corner of that star layer in order to select everything contained inside the layer and there are a total of four objects that we are seeing right now. There is actually a fifth object that's offscreen. I will go ahead and zoom out so that we can take in everything. So the fifth object is over here. It's this little completely transparent guy, a little circle whose Opacity…

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