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- sarahfailin0
I've spent the last 2 hours trying to "knock out" the atom shape but I can't get anything to work! can somebody help? it says there are no intersecting paths.
I tried going to appearance and reducing opacity to 0% and then clicking 'knockout shape' to no avail. Also I am guessing that it will be hard to make that fading tail end gradually transparent?
- Fading tail is straightforward, just not intuitive! It is AI after all...
Here it is made with a gradient stroke.
https://jmp.sh/x0GXj…MrT - i will be at the office in an hour, will check on these things.
what is it that you call "knock out"?sted - in print you don't actually have "transparent". so this gradient you have always goes from black to white.sted
- you got 2 options: set the opacity to 0 at the white end (this will turn it on every background to black to transparency)sted
- or leave as it is and fade the white into a less hard end.sted
- for shapes you can't "knock out" transparent objects. it will be always the same vector (currently outlined circle)sted
- also don't use 100% black/white to achieve this type of transparency. like MrT showed, 100% black to transparent fade is the right way.sted
- but idk how the AI file currently looks like so just ignore my bullshit ahahahasted
- lol yep, it's 100% black to 0% black. If your AI is old the gradient stroke feature might not be there. It's been in for 10 years+ though IIRC.MrT
- 'knock out' like? https://99designs.co…ghostpancake
- ^nvm, realised you're using pathfinder. are you trying to intersect a line and not a shape, maybe? turn a stroked line into a shape: object>path>outline stroke.ghostpancake
- (also bear in mind i am not skilled at illustrator and am responding mostly out of guilt for posting the above reworking of your logo.)ghostpancake
- Fading tail is straightforward, just not intuitive! It is AI after all...