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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: NinjaEpisode on August 30, 2004, 03:53:53 pm
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Been playing in Illustrator 10, btw Frosty? Friggin Awesome Tutorial.
I'm nearly done with what I've been vectorizing, but I have two areas that I need to make completely transparent to the layer behind them, and I can't figure out how to do it.
Essentially, these are the area inside the letter "O" and the aread inside the letter "R" and I don't know how to get rid of that color area.
Help maybe?
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Try asking this in the Artwork section
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You can't make part of an object transparent, you need to cut a hole in it. In Illustrator 7 the tools you need are on the Pathfinder pallet. Make the hole as an object, and select the object and the hole, then click the pallet button.
Bob
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In AI 10 you can use an object to cut out a portion of another object.
To draw an simple O:
1. Draw a circle.
2. Draw a smaller circle and center it over the bigger circle.
3. Select only the smaller circle.
4. Click Object-Path-Divide Objects Below.
5. Delete the smaller circle.
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What you are trying to do is to "create a compound path"
If you have letter 0, it is made of 2 lines, the outside and the inside. To make the inside "invisible" you need to create a compound path.
SO, choose the base of the object, hold "shift" and slect the invisible part, then choose "Object > Compound Path > Make"
There you go.
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Thank you gentlemen!