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Layer blending operations

Layer blending operations

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Layer blending operations

- [Instructor] Blending options are very useful and very powerful and there are plenty of places that you can investigate them further in a lot more detail but for this course, what we're going to do is take a look at them at a fairly high level because I don't really want to weigh you down with a lot of technical content while you're learning this app but if you're used to applications like Photoshop and Painter and Illustrator, then the chances are you're very familiar with them already. There aren't as many in this app but the essentials are there. So, what is a blending operation? Well, there are two kinds of layer blending in Illustrator Draw with the most obvious and primary one perhaps being opacity. So, if I just target this stars layer in this illustration which is actually one that I've used in one of my Illustrator courses and if you've done that, you might recognize it, and what I'm going to do is tap again and you'll see that there is an opacity slider right at the top of…

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