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Creating layer opacity

Creating layer opacity - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating layer opacity

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie, I want to talk about handling opacity, and opacity layers in Illustrator. It's a feature most people tend to forget about until it's needed. So, let me show you what I'm talking about, and explain how to use it in context. So, this is a simple graphic map for a RPG card game. This isn't a real one. I just set this up as an example to demonstrate what I want to show you. And, let's say, this is your base artwork. And you have all the various game pieces we can turn on. We'll go ahead and lock these layers. That come on above it. Now, these pieces could move around, and they can be composed to relate to whatever the given journey is in the game. Whatever you want to call it. Now, I want to show you one thing, and that is, building a path. Because, on this map, we want to have lines that kind of point and direct the viewer to specific things. Maybe it's part of the path adventure we're creating for the game. In…

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