If you want to apply sophisticated color effects
Illustrator offers advanced fill and stroke options such as patterns, gradients, and the ability to add multiple fills and strokes to a single object. In addition, you can apply transparency and masks to produce painterly, see-through effects: - Use the Transparency palette to apply transparency to vector objects, bitmap images, or type. You have the option of limiting transparency to a layer, a group, or an object's fill or stroke, and transparent objects and type remain fully editable. (See Working with transparency.)
- Apply blending modes to blend the colors of graphics and type with the colors on underlying layers. By experimenting with different mode settings in the Transparency palette, you can create a wide range of effects. (See Using blending modes.)
- Use clipping masks to cut an object away from its background, or create opacity masks to let elements on an underlying layer show through an object. (See Using clipping masks to change the shape of objects and Creating and editing opacity masks.)
- Paint objects by filling them with solid colors or patterns. Or use gradients to produce painterly fills that flow between multiple colors, similar to watercolors. (See Applying color fills and strokes to objects, Using the Gradient palette, and Working with patterns.)
- Select Add New Fill or Add New Stroke from the Appearance palette to apply multiple strokes and fills to a single object. (See Creating multiple fills and strokes in an object.)
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