Ever wonder what those two thumbnails are all about in the Transparency Panel in Illustrator? They're for editing Opacity Masks. To learn more check out the video below:
You can also use Opacity Masking to add texture to an object. In the example below, I took a border I scanned from a Dover clip art book, Live Traced it, and placed a black and white texture on top of it before creating an Opacity Mask from the border and texture. Now the border has a distressed textured effect and I can see through it to the background color below. Here's the border before I added the Opacity Mask:
Here's the border with the texture Opacity Mask:
Watch the video and experiment with it yourself! And check out the other videos on my Coyleart YouTube channel! There's still time to enter the contest to win a Bamboo Tablet on the Wacom Pen Scrappers site
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