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francesvief
francesvief
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April 30, 2020
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How to make overlapping illustrations transparent

  • April 30, 2020
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Hi, I'm fairly new to Illustrator and I just got the hang of the pen tool. I wanted to make a cool design for a t-shirt and drew some cars. I colored both cars white and add each car with a seperate layer so that the illutrations didn't colide with eachother. I actually want the cars to be transparent so that you"ll only see its black lines. Any way to make it transparent?

 

this is how I want it to be but transparent.

this is what I want to prevent from happening.

And like I said before, I'm new to illustrator and I only know a few tools so please explain it to me as if im a 6 y/o child 😜

 

Big thanks!!!

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

You could first make a copy of your file and work on the copy.

Select the cars as seen in the first picture.

Choose Object > Path > Outline Stroke.

While still selected, click the Merge option from the Pathfinders in the Pathfinder panel.

With the Direct Selection tool click on a white filled area.

Choose Select > Same > Same Fill Color

Hit Delete

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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April 30, 2020

You could first make a copy of your file and work on the copy.

Select the cars as seen in the first picture.

Choose Object > Path > Outline Stroke.

While still selected, click the Merge option from the Pathfinders in the Pathfinder panel.

With the Direct Selection tool click on a white filled area.

Choose Select > Same > Same Fill Color

Hit Delete

    francesvief
    francesviefAuthor
    Participant
    April 30, 2020

    did you mean selecting both illustrations? I first selected one, followed all the steps, got a big black square, I couldn't seem to select anything with the direct selection tool (which i already found odd), hit delete and it just deleted the whole illutration...

     

    EDIT: I figured it out, but it still makes the illutrations collide with eachother

    EDIT 2.0

     

    Okay selecting both cars seem to do the trick (sorry im a slow learner) Thank you very much!!

     

     

    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 30, 2020

    Good to hear that worked!

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