What Is Knockout Group in Illustrator?
Contents When You Have Two Objects Overlapping in Illustrator, It Has to Figure out Which Parts You Can See, and Which Are Hidden. So, We Don’t See the Entire...
When you have two objects overlapping in Illustrator, it has to figure out which parts you can see, and which are hidden. So, we don’t see the entire red square below, because the blue circle is covering part of it. Illustrator has knocked out (made invisible) part of the red square.
How do you use knockout group?
Knockout Strokes in Illustrator
- Create two overlapping shapes in Illustrator.
- Add the stroke that you want knocked out.
- Select the shape with the stroke and go to the appearance panel.
- Click the arrow next to “Stroke”.
- Click “Opacity” and change opacity to 0%.
- Select both shapes and group them.
- Knockout group opacity.
- Enjoy.
3.02.2014
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