Just a lemonjunkie Hobbit
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Hello everyone,
This forum seems nice and friendly!
That is why i decided to post here this assistance request.
I confess that you are not the first website of this kind that I visit looking for help. And that I don't know if I will be very active on a designer forum yet.
But I shurely know that I will give away my work for everyone as soon as I finish it.
I'm new to graphic designing, and i'm currently trying to improve my current resume with the help of Adobe Illustrator. But I realise now that I may be stuck on a dead end.
Here is my problem:
"I created a few objects that should represent transparent glass panels. Each of them are a group composed of:
Each object in the groups are filled with a different black-to-white gradient using the color dodge blending mode in order to subject them the gradient of my background.
Everything works fine except that I wish, if it is possible, to hide the background. I would like to have its effects on the color blending objects stay active, so that I would still be able to move them along the gradient for lighting effects while overlapping with other shapes.
I tried different path finding options, but none of them does the job correctly. It may be because the characteristics of some of the shapes are conflicting. I think the function I'm looking for is the clipping mask, but the "clipped part" stays the same, it does not follow the background gradient when I move the object (not to mention that I only successfully tried the clipping mask on a new single shape because I could not manage to apply it correctly to my grouped glass panel shapes).
I am currently using Illustrator CS6."
I thank you all in advance fo your help.
PS:If was wrong to post this thread in this section i would be glad that any morderator switches this post to the correct section.
This forum seems nice and friendly!
That is why i decided to post here this assistance request.
I confess that you are not the first website of this kind that I visit looking for help. And that I don't know if I will be very active on a designer forum yet.
But I shurely know that I will give away my work for everyone as soon as I finish it.
I'm new to graphic designing, and i'm currently trying to improve my current resume with the help of Adobe Illustrator. But I realise now that I may be stuck on a dead end.
Here is my problem:
"I created a few objects that should represent transparent glass panels. Each of them are a group composed of:
- One rectangle shape with 2 rounded corners (I divided my rectangle then expanded appearance, then joined them)
- One pen created shape that overlaps the first rectangle on the upper part
- Two small shapes (both used for highlighting certain parts of my rectangles)
- A small "one lined path" used for the same purpose as the two above
Each object in the groups are filled with a different black-to-white gradient using the color dodge blending mode in order to subject them the gradient of my background.
Everything works fine except that I wish, if it is possible, to hide the background. I would like to have its effects on the color blending objects stay active, so that I would still be able to move them along the gradient for lighting effects while overlapping with other shapes.
I tried different path finding options, but none of them does the job correctly. It may be because the characteristics of some of the shapes are conflicting. I think the function I'm looking for is the clipping mask, but the "clipped part" stays the same, it does not follow the background gradient when I move the object (not to mention that I only successfully tried the clipping mask on a new single shape because I could not manage to apply it correctly to my grouped glass panel shapes).
I am currently using Illustrator CS6."
I thank you all in advance fo your help.
PS:If was wrong to post this thread in this section i would be glad that any morderator switches this post to the correct section.