How to Make Transparent Letters in Illustrator
Make transparent letters in Adobe Illustrator, then display them in the program or export them to other Adobe Creative Suite applications. Illustrator's transparency effects allow you to blend transparent letters with any other text or image that sits on a layer below them. These see-through letters may also be layered so that overlapping occurs. Create an Illustrator document with a layer that contains a non-transparent object to appreciate the full effect of transparent letters.
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Instructions
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Launch Illustrator and open a file containing letters, images, shapes or other objects. Click "Windows" and "Layers" to view the file's layers.
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Click the "Create New Layer" button at the bottom of the Layers dialog box. Click on the newly created layer in the Layers box, then click the "Type" tool.
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Type a value greater than 10 into the "Font Size" box at the top of the window. Click inside the image and type the letters that you want to make transparent.
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Activate the "Selection" tool and drag it over the letters to which you want to apply the transparency effect. Click "Window" and "Transparency" to open Adobe Illustrator's Transparency pane.
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Type a value less than 100 into the "Opacity" field in the Transparency panel to make the selected letters transparent. The smaller the value, the more transparent the letters.
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