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Contour lines and opacity masks

Contour lines and opacity masks - Illustrator Tutorial

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Contour lines and opacity masks

In this movie, I'll show you how to create these multiline highlights over on the left hand of the ampersand. Which are interesting in that they require more complex applications of the tools that we've seen so far. So I'll go ahead and switch over to my document in progress here. And then, I'll grab my pen tool. Which I can get of course by pressing the p key. And I'm going to go ahead and establish some default attributes by changing the Fill up here in the control panel to None. And I'll change the Stroke to White. And I'll reduce my Line Weight value to 0.5 points. And I'll click on the word Stroke and assign both a Round Cap and a Round Joint. All right, next what you want to do if you are working along with me is click with the pen tool in order to set an anchor point right about there. Should work nicely. And then, I'll set another corner point right at this location. And another corner point right there. So we have a total of three corner points in all that are describing a…

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