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Opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Opacity mask
But what I would like to do is to fade these clouds out or maybe just focusing on this particular one here. I want it to fade out as it goes further down so I would like to create a gradient mask for this and for this the best is to use an opacity mask. So what you can do is to click on make mask here in the transparency panel. You can also access this from the properties panel if you click on Opacity and then click on Make Mask, I just prefer to use the panel because I can keep track of that easier and then here what happened is that a black mask was added which means it's completely hidden now the object it's not visible because black hides white shows when it comes to opacity masks and what I recommend to do is to click on Clip to have the original details showing up again so this way your mask is going to be empty it's white it means that all the objects inside of this selection are visible and then don't forget to click on the mask icon and this is a way to switch between the…
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