I'm pretty new to Illustrator and am starting with an image produced years ago. I have a black and white compass, with black triangular spokes and a white circle center with black text on that circle. It looks fine when exported on a white backgound
My problem is that I need the center to be transparent; I can change the background of the circle to transparent, but then the ends of the black triangles which make up the spokes show up (they are overly large and extend into the center).
I can't seem to alter the triangles to follow the curve. Can I somehow set my inner circle to transparent and not let the triangles show up? It kinda defeats the purpose of transparency to force it to cover up other layers, but I don't know what else to do, because when I export the image to a png, it's not fully transparent.
I've managed to create a clipping mask in a seperate layer that is exactly what I need to blank to transparent, but I can't make subtract what is already there.
Any ideas? Thanks
My problem is that I need the center to be transparent; I can change the background of the circle to transparent, but then the ends of the black triangles which make up the spokes show up (they are overly large and extend into the center).
I can't seem to alter the triangles to follow the curve. Can I somehow set my inner circle to transparent and not let the triangles show up? It kinda defeats the purpose of transparency to force it to cover up other layers, but I don't know what else to do, because when I export the image to a png, it's not fully transparent.
I've managed to create a clipping mask in a seperate layer that is exactly what I need to blank to transparent, but I can't make subtract what is already there.
Any ideas? Thanks