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Blending between levels of opacity - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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The earliest dynamic functions1m 10s
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The gradient-intensive illustration5m 26s
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Creating a multi-color blend7m 39s
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Establishing a clipping mask3m 34s
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Reinstating the mask colors9m 7s
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Editing blended paths6m 50s
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Adjusting the number of blended steps6m 49s
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Using the Blend tool4m 33s
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Blending between levels of opacity7m 32s
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Editing the path of the blend6m 22s
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Adding a custom path of the blend5m 4s
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Placing one mask inside another8m 33s
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Blending groups and adjusting the speed6m 1s
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Rotating objects in 3D space10m 21s
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Creating custom perspective guides8m 31s
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