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November 30, 2019
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How do I make everything white on this illustration transparent?

  • November 30, 2019
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I made this little logo and used made an odd shape on the bottom to "cut off" the barn illustration. It is fine when on a white background, but this needs to be on a shirt and therefore I need to get rid of the weird white shape. How do I do this? I will put pics with a dark gray background to make the problem obvious. 

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Correct answer Monika Gause

select an object with a white fill with the direct selection tool. make sure the fill is active . then sect > same > fill. then in the appearance panel  set the white fill to 0% opacity . then group all and set the group to knockout group. in order toget this printed on certain devices you will need to expand it. use object > flattentransparency. set outline strokes and keep alpha transparency. afterwards clean up all the remaining invisible objects

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November 30, 2019

Hi, jluceydesign

The easiest solution is to group the barn illustrations and set the drawing mode to "multiply".
However, this works if the logo is black, but it can cause problems if the logo color is changed.

If change the color, please disassemble and shape with a pathfinder.

Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 30, 2019

select an object with a white fill with the direct selection tool. make sure the fill is active . then sect > same > fill. then in the appearance panel  set the white fill to 0% opacity . then group all and set the group to knockout group. in order toget this printed on certain devices you will need to expand it. use object > flattentransparency. set outline strokes and keep alpha transparency. afterwards clean up all the remaining invisible objects

Larry G. Schneider
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Community Expert
November 30, 2019

Try selecting the path above the white area with the Direct Select tool (Open Arrow) and see if the path has a white fill. If it does, delete the fill and just keep the path.

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November 30, 2019
Unfortunately, that won’t work. The white fill is purposeful in that is is covering line endings etc that I don’t want to show. I figured out how to do what I want using the Magic Eraser tool on Photoshop but want to do this in Illustrator because I need it in a vector format.