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Adobe Illustrator: Fading Out Shadows

Posted: October 23rd, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Tutorial | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments »

Here’s a quick tutorial where I run through using the opacity mask in Illustrator to create transparent shadows that fade out to nothing. I can remember when I first started drawing in Illustrator it took longer than I care to admit before I realized that a gradient didn’t have to have two colors (ok, it does but it doesn’t have to appear that way).

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2 Comments on “Adobe Illustrator: Fading Out Shadows”

  1. 1 Sigurdur Armannsson said at 3:21 pm on October 23rd, 2009:

    Good example on how to use the Opacity Mask.
    There is a major upgrade of the gradients in CS4. One of the things is that you can grade a color from any percentage to zero – or transparent. Perfect for this operation.
    However, the Opacity Mask is still valid and worth keeping in mind.
    Thanks.

  2. 2 Emil said at 10:50 am on October 29th, 2009:

    I’ve always wondered how to do that. Thanks!

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