From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
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Blend modes and opacity - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Blend modes and opacity
There's a couple of additional important features in Illustrator with which you can affect the visibility of objects besides simply using the visibility toggle the eye icons and to see an example here on the left side I have this word dense which I can move around and we can see it actually is see-through so when I move it around here we can see through it and see the details behind it and that is because it has a lowered opacity value. Now if I go over to the properties panel we can find the opacity here and we can easily change this so if I go back to a hundred percent we can actually see how it looks normally so it's white text but with a lowered opacity let's just say to 25% this is how it's going to look like so it's going to reveal whatever it is underneath it. Now you can also open up the transparency panel if you want to see these options permanently on your workspace so go to window transparency and there you will be able to see the opacity of your current selection but…
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