ghosting an illustration

[jonpdrew]

What is the easiest way to take part of an illustration and ghost it so another part of the graphic is more pronounced? I'm an AutoCAD guy by trade but I need to bring some of my graphics into Illustrator 10 for further editing...by the way it's Illustrator 10 for Windows. Any help would be appreciated.

Jon

 

[Arjay418]

Sounds like what you might want to do is make an opacity mask. Here's what I did in Illustrator 9 just to see if it would work and it seemed to:

1. Using the Pathfinder palette> Minus Front, I created a square with another square cut out of it--a frame basically. I positioned the hole in the frame over the part I wanted to leave more pronounced. The solid part of the frame covered the part I wanted to ghost.

2. I filled the solid part of the frame with a dark gray.

3. In the Transparency palette flyout menu I chose Make Opacity Mask.

I was left with a square "pronounced" section (where the hole in the frame was) and the rest was faded out a bit.

Maybe that will work?

--RJ