From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides
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The transparency grid - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides
The transparency grid
- [Instructor] If you're a Photoshop user, you'll be familiar with transparency being represented with a checkerboard. In Illustrator, there is also a transparency grid. It doesn't get used anywhere near as frequently as it does in Photoshop, and there are no preferences whereby you can specify the size of the checkerboard or the color of the checkerboard, but you can turn it on. And sometimes, it can give you some useful visual feedback. Here I have a gradient that goes from green to transparent, but you wouldn't necessarily know that. You might think it goes from green to white, but if I turn on the transparency grid, then there's no ambiguity about that. We see that the transparency grid also applies to the pasteboard. This is something we can toggle on and off, as needed, Command + Shift + D or Control + Shift + D.
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