illustrator cs / 2 masking

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  • Nairn0

    I can't find a well-worded, useful link, so instead here's an incomprehensible post -

    - Create shape to be masked, in output colour.
    - Duplicate shape in place, then apply a black and white gradient, where black is the 'alpha colour' (ie. transparent), and white is the colour you want to keep.
    - with the black and white gradient mask-object on TOP of object-to-be-masked, layer select both, then, from your Transparency palette's additional options (> button), click 'make opacity mask'.

    this applies to illustrator versions =

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