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Using the Opacity Brush

Using the Opacity Brush - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Opacity Brush

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- [Instructor] Texturino's opacity brush let's you modify the visibility of any elements in your Illustrator artwork in a quick and intuitive way. Here in our file, I have three speech bubbles that are just simple vector objects laid on top of one another along with some outlined text. And if I wanted to blend the speech bubbles together to create a new look I can use the opacity brush. Now before I use the brush, there's an Illustrator preference that I should change. I'll go to preferences, and choose performance. And I'm going to turn off GPU performance. If this option is turned on, then you may not see accurate previews of your brush strokes with either the opacity brush or the texture brush. So I'll make sure this is turned off and click okay. And then I'll select the opacity brush in the tools. Notice that the panel automatically appears when I select the tool. And you can see the options for the opacity brush that you…

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