Make white circles transparent

[default2fakcfutgo1d]

How do I make the white circles transparent. Whenever I change opacity it fills with the black circles that make the flower. Is there anyway to make white circle transparent when it is used to knockout black.

[MARKCHENG-JOHNSON FITNESS]

"First, cut out a white hole in the black part, then cover the hole with a white piece of the same size to achieve the desired effect."

[default2fakcfutgo1d]

When I select circle and cut it fills with the other four black circles. Then I make a transparent circle and it doesn't knock out the black.

[MARKCHENG-JOHNSON FITNESS]

First, I'm not a native speaker, so please forgive me if I can only understand the question to the best of my ability. Please make sure to press the button shown in the picture when cutting the circle, so you can 'actually' cut out the part you want to remove

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Accepted solution]

I think what you mean is that you want the white circle to show what's behind it, like a hole.

You can use Pathfinder Tool > Unite to first combine the 4 black circles into one object if they are currently separate.

Then you can select both that new shape and the front (white) circle you want to be a hole, then use the Pathfinder > Minus Front to cut the front circle out of the flower shape.

[default2fakcfutgo1d]

Thank you guys for your help. I probably spent about 15-20 hours trying to figure how to do that with no luck.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

When you have a achance, read up on what a Compound Path is in Illustrator. This will give you the background of how/why this works. Cheers

[Jacob Bugge]

default2,

Depending on your use of the final artwork, and possible desired editability/reversibility, there are a few ways.

A simple and editable/reversible way is to select each of the white circles along with the four black circles that it overlaps (which can be Grouped, optionally), then in the Transparency palette click Make (Opacity) Mask with Clip unticked and Invert Mask ticked.

This will hide the overlapped parts of the four black circles so the background shows through; you can work within the Opacity Mask or release it so you can edit the constituent parts and reverse to what you have as desired.

For artwork used for logos and certain other uses, it is better/necessary to change the artwork to simple paths, such as the way suggested by Brad.

[Kurt Gold]

And just in case it may matter: Based on your screenshot you are not using Illustrator. Probably it's one of the applications from Affinity. Or something else.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

@Kurt Gold . This is Inkscape's UI. My guess is the OP is importing an .AI file??

Otherwise, yeah, they are in the wrong forum! 😉