Lighting effects and opacity masks
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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2. Lighting effects and opacity masks. Tutorial. Add an opacity mask. 1 Mimic a traditional light source …
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Lighting effects and opacity masks
The rays of light effect is one of the most requested
tutorials in Illustrator. It’s a classic effect that you see in
many types of product illustrations from Zephyr-hills
water bottles to Folgers coffee. However, we’re going to
take this tutorial one step further and learn how to
enhance the effect with another highly requested
feature in Adobe?Illustrator?CS2: Opacity masks.
If you’d like to download the image used in
this tutorial to practice this technique, visit the
September/October 2005 section of
www.layersmagazine.com/magazine/downloads.php.
Create the rays of light
1 Open a document and create a new layer
Create a new RGB document (choose File > New) in
Illustrator CS2 or open the file I’ve created here to
follow along. Next, click on the Create New Layer icon
at the bottom of the Layers palette to create a new layer
to hold the rays of light that we’re about to make.
Double-click the new layer and rename it “Rays of
Light” in the Layer Options dialog box.
Create new layer in your document to hold the…
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