I had been using a previous version of illustrator. In the previous version, illustrator 10 I believe, I was able to set the opacity before drawing a line with the pencil tool, and the subsequent lines draw retained that opcacity. In this manner I could sketch with Illustrator as if using a hard lead pencil. Very cool. However I have upgraded and now find it impossible to draw in such a manner with the pencil tool. It seems that every new line drawn is automatically set to 100 percent opacity. Of course I can select those lines and change their opacity but that is beside the point. I want every new line to have that transparent quality. Is this no longer possible with the creative suite versions of Illustrator?
frustrated,
mlake
