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Blending an envelope into a background - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Blending an envelope into a background
In this final exercise, we are going to blend this horse with its background, so we get some nice rich blacks going, and we are going to do that using a blend mode and an opacity mask from the Transparency panel. I have saved my changes as Horse inside a mesh.ai. It's found, as always, inside the 25_ liquify_envelope folder, and I want you to make sure that your entire mesh object is selected, because as you may recall, in my case, I just have a point somewhere selected in the mesh. And if I go to the Transparency panel, my blend mode is not available, because you can't apply blend modes on a point-by-point basis. And where an envelope-style mesh is concerned, you can't apply opacity values either; you have to do so to the entire object. So here inside the Layers panel, I am going to go ahead and meatball my envelope item there inside of the horse layer, and now both my opacity and my blend mode light up inside the Transparency panel, and I'm going to change my mode from Normal to…
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The best of static and dynamic adjustments58s
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Adding wings to a horse in Photoshop6m 52s
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Introducing the Warp tool6m 29s
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Brush size, Detail, and Simplify8m 24s
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The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools6m 13s
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The Scallop, Crystallize, and Wrinkle tools5m 55s
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Creating a mind-blowing custom starburst4m 29s
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Introducing Envelope Distort5m 21s
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Editing the contents of an envelope5m 20s
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Warping an envelope mesh5m 20s
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Liquifying the contents of an envelope7m 7s
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Creating and editing an envelope mesh7m 59s
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Blending an envelope into a background4m 35s
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