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Putting an opacity mask into use

Putting an opacity mask into use - Illustrator Tutorial

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Putting an opacity mask into use

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to put an opacity mask into actual use. And once again, we're going to get the stripes off the model's nose, and we're going to create these soft transitions over here on the left and right hand sides of the face. All right, I'll switch back to my document in progress, which I've reverted to its save state. And so the first thing I'm going to do is press the A key to switch to my white arrow tool, and that will allow me to gain access to these shapes that are trapped inside the group. So I want to select these two big circles right here, as well as this shape, and if you click inside that shape, you're going to select everything in the compound path, which is not what we want. And so if that happens to you Shift + click again in order to de-select the shapes, and then you want to press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac. So I have both the Shift and Alt keys down,…

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