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Placing one mask inside another - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Placing one mask inside another
In this exercise I am going to show you how to modify two blends at the same time and then we are going to take them and place them inside of a mask, and then we are going to take that mask and put it inside yet another mask. I have saved my progress as Menacing eyebrow.ai, and I am going to zoom out here so that we can take in the face of the sarcophagus right here. Notice that I've got these extreme paths at the top and the bottom on both sides of the sarcophagus and I want to blend between them in order to create a kind of ribbing effect. Now I would like to go and select these objects, but for me they're on a locked layer. So I am going to unlock this shield & ribs layer by clicking on the lock icon to turn it off and then I will click on this top path here and the bottom path. And this time around, because we have done it so many times, so I am just going to press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+B or Cmd+Option+B on a Mac. Because those two paths sport identical strokes and no…
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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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