Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CCġ4. Class Project 02 - Drawing Exercise using Width, Curvature & Corner Widgets ('Living Spree' redraw and color)ġ3. Using Live Shape Effects in Adobe Illustrator CCġ2. Class Project 01 - The best creation tool in Adobe Illustrator CC the shape builder tool (Draw and color your own whale)ġ1. Mastering corners with Adobe Illustrator CC corner widget effectsĩ. How to draw flowing curves in Adobe Illustrator with the Width ToolĨ. Advanced Pen Tool Tricks using Adobe Illustrator CCħ. Curvature Tool vs Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator CCĦ. Trick for redrawing hand drawn images in Adobe Illustrator CCĥ. Getting started with your Adobe Illustrator advanced tutorialĤ. Introduction to Advanced Adobe Illustrator CCĢ. The mask allowed me to limit the visibility and blur the edges.1. In this example, I used the Opacity mask to create the reflection. Let’s look at some pictures, which shown how I used the Opacity Mask in practice. Moreover, you can mask the groups of objects in such a way, which cannot be achieved by any other way. In fact, we have two objects, the transition between which is defined by the third object in the form of black-and-white gradient. The usage of Opacity mask gives us more opportunities, than two other ways of gradient fill combing. To control the gradient of color object, click on the Opacity mask thumbnail. To control black-and-white gradient, click on the thumbnail of masking objects in the Transparency panel. If the Opacity Mask placed above other gradient fill, then we will get a combination of gradients. The place where it is black, the bottom rectangle became transparent. The top rectangle with black-and-white gradient plays a role of a mask. Select both rectangles, and then select Make Opacity Mask in the fly-out menu of the Transparency panel. We have a rectangle, which is filled with linear gradient.Ĭreate a new rectangle, which is located above the first rectangle, and fill it with black-and-white linear gradient. Let’s check out the Opacity Mask creation technique on one easy example. After your vector work has been saved in EPS10 format, the gradient with transparent sliders is transformed into the Opacity Mask. I think, it won’t cause you any problems. Some users avoid usage of gradients with transparent sliders, because the final version of the artwork should be saved in EPS10 format. Usually, two sliders of the same color are used in such gradients one of the sliders should have 0% opacity. In this case, we won’t need to use blending modes we can apply such gradients in both color modes (RGB and CMYK) and combine color gradients with no limitations. This feature can be used for gradient combining. Since the release of CS5, we can change the opacity of gradient fill sliders. Combining of Gradients with the Help of Transparency Slider Feature You can, of course, use these techniques for color gradient combining, but it won’t work very effectively, because of the color blends.ĭespite the limitations mentioned here, combining of gradients with the help of blending modes is a rather common technique, and is often used for creation of highlights and shadows. Now we can adjust the intensity of the reflection by changing white radial gradient to grey. Fill the copy with radial gradient from black to white.Īpply Screen blending mode to the upper form Now we can control the intensity of our shadow, either lighten or darken our grey linear gradient.ĭuplicate the form of the pole one more time. Try Startup App Try Slides App Other Products With Startup App and Slides App you can build unlimited websites using the online website editor which includes ready-made designed and coded elements, templates and themes.