From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Creating a gradient opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating a gradient opacity mask
In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to create the most useful kind of opacity mask there is. That's a gradient opacity mask. I've saved my changes as Conceal & reveal.ai, so called, because we have this square here inside the opacity mask. That's where I'm working right now. So I'm midstream on this project. I've got this square that's set to black, so it's concealing the contents of the layer. I have this circle that's set to white, so it's revealing the contents of the layer. They're both movable by the way. You can move them anywhere you want. They'll continue to conceal and reveal as you go. If you want the opposite behavior, I'll just show you this. You can turn on the Invert Mask check box, which goes ahead and reverses the objects. Not the background, just the object, so that black is now concealing, and white is now revealing. I think that's insane. So I'm going to go ahead and turn that check box back off. But Illustrator is nothing if not flexible. All right, well…
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The many forms of transparency1m 29s
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Real-world blending modes7m 57s
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Exporting transparency from Illustrator6m 24s
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Opacity and blending modes6m 18s
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The Darken and Lighten modes7m 17s
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The Contrast, Inversion, and HSL modes6m 12s
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Blending modes in action5m 11s
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Creating a knockout group6m 13s
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Confirming the viability of your artwork6m 8s
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Introducing the opacity mask4m 6s
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Making an opacity mask5m 25s
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Drawing inside an opacity mask3m 33s
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Creating a gradient opacity mask5m 29s
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Adding an opacity mask to a single object3m 22s
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