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dba111
Inspiring
January 12, 2019
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No Luck on Knock Out

  • January 12, 2019
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Hi

I have been on illustrator 4 days and I have a eps.logo given to me.

I have done many tutorials but still no luck with what I would like to achieve.

I am sure I am missing something very simple.

Its been a great learning curve.

Would someone pls point me in the right direction.

Is it possible to group all these outlines and have them transparent?

Clear transparent outlines dividing up all these segments?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time

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Correct answer Monika Gause

So you want to keep those fills, but knock out the lines from them?

THose fills seem to also interact with each other, so the following method might or might not work:

1. Apply the opacity 0% to all the strokes (just the strokes, you need to use the appearance panel for that)

2. Group everything and then apply the "Knockout group" to the group (the complete group, not single elements). The transparency panel or the appearance panel might work for this.

Don't save as EPS.

Turn off GPU preview. Set it to View > Preview on CPU.

If it still does not work, please upload the file to Dropbox or the like and share a link here.

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jdanek
Inspiring
January 12, 2019

Your file does not represent a typical "logo"; but rather some type of background geometric pattern.  There are two ways ( probably more ) that I can think of to create transparency.  One would be selecting all and in the Transparency menu applying a percentage opaciity to the entire elements or selecting each color and applying a transparent opacity to each individual color.  Not sure how the pattern you show works into a logo and where the "knock-out" takes place.

dba111
dba111Author
Inspiring
January 12, 2019

Thanks for the reply

Ive not had luck understanding knock out so i was assuming I could knock these outlines out to leave the coloured panels only.

Seems when I select the outlines and reduce opacity they just disappear over the colours of the design rather than leave a hard transparent line in between the colours which I would like.

hope that is helpful.

Thanks anyway I will keep plugging away, hoping to crack the code.

Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 12, 2019

So you want to keep those fills, but knock out the lines from them?

THose fills seem to also interact with each other, so the following method might or might not work:

1. Apply the opacity 0% to all the strokes (just the strokes, you need to use the appearance panel for that)

2. Group everything and then apply the "Knockout group" to the group (the complete group, not single elements). The transparency panel or the appearance panel might work for this.

Don't save as EPS.

Turn off GPU preview. Set it to View > Preview on CPU.

If it still does not work, please upload the file to Dropbox or the like and share a link here.

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