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- grymes
I am trying to create a 'transparenty gradiant.' Basically I want to overlay a gradient on something that consists of one color, ie white, and nothing(the transparent part). So when you are done you have something on a white background that eventually fades to white. Thanks.
- Soler0
i dont trust Ill gradients. use ps
- MLVR0
I'm not sure if i get you... but to create a gradient fading from nothing to any colour just create a gradient from white to eg. green.
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Then select the gradient and change the properties in the transparency window to 'multiply'.
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Soler: No need to not trust it.
- Soler0
dunno, less robust then ps. im sure it werx i just dont use it mostly.
thanx
- trev0
make a black&white gradient
play with multiply/screen modestheres nothing wrong will illustrators gradients, nothing.
- grymes0
I talked to someone who said something about using transparency masks. I am going to look into that more.
- kevinv0330
yeah u can make transparency masks.
similar to gradient masks in ps.
make a b&w gradient select ur object and the gradient then in the transparencey palette pop-out select make transparency mask or something.
- johndiggity0
if you can do it in photoshop using layer masks, i'd suggest it. i tried to mimic a transpareny gradient over a gradient fill background using illustrator only and the printed piece did not turn out as well as i wanted.
- airey0
yeah, illustrator docs up to CS always said they don't support the transparency opts when printing. bit iffy on CS also methinks. makes you wonder why they bothered.
- REDWOOD0
The transparency will work for print, no problems with that. And if you're not sure about it than select the object go to object>flatten transparency.
- CyBrainX0
Transparency masks will work with print, but it's risky. You don't always get what you see.
If you're working on screen graphics, then you don't have to worry.
If you're importing into Flash from an exported swf. It will rasterize.