I'll select them all,
so once my artwork is finalized,
and the transparency blending modes
are great for experimenting,
but when you want to finalize
so that you can print with confidence,
knowing that you'll get the colors that you intend,
you will want to segment the artwork,
and that's what I'm going to do next,
in this case using pathfinder,
and I'll divide that.
And that means that I now have discrete segments.
I'll come and choose my direct selection tool,
and I can select them one by one.
So the cyan, the magenta,
and the yellow, I don't need to change those,
but when I select the red segment,
you can see that it still thinks that it's magenta.
I'm going to actually make it red,
and the green will become green,
and the blue will become blue,
and the black, well, that can be a solid black.
And in fact, I want to convert it to a heart,
so I'm going to come to my symbols panel
where I have, conveniently waiting for me, a heart symbol.
This comes from the web icons symbols library.
I'll drag off an instance of that,
and so that I can edit it, I will break the link to it,
then come and select the interior shape
leaving me with just this black heart,
and I'll put that in position.
I'm just going to cover up the existing black shape like so.
Transparency is very commonly used to indicate connection,
and what could be simpler than having two overlapping shapes
and where they connect having a third shape
and a third color.
So I'll select these two shapes
and come to my transparency panel once again,
and, as I would normally, try multiply.
Multiply doesn't work in this case,
so I need to try another transparency mode.
We could just go and experiment with these.
If you're familiar with Photoshop,
you'll know that there is a keyboard
shortcut that will cycle you through
your transparency blending modes,
making it easier for you to experiment with them.
There's no such shortcut in Illustrator
unless we add one by customizing keyboard shortcuts.
So I'm going to come to keyboard shortcuts
and I will search for my blend modes.
I'll just type in the word "blend",
and then scroll down where we see blend mode, next mode,
and previous mode.
Now, I could assign shortcuts to the modes individually,
but in this case, I'm just going to
assign a shortcut to the next,
and to the previous.
So click into next mode.
I'm going to make it the same as it is in Photoshop,
which is shift plus.
That's going to read the arrows shift equals,
and then previous mode, shift minus.
Click OK, yes I'm sure I want to overwrite that set,
so now, so long as you're not on the normal blending mode,
you will be able to use those keyboard shortcuts.
You can see the blending mode there changing.
And then I know when I get to overlay
that that's the one that I want.
Harking back to the previous example,
I want to segment this,
and I want to apply an orange to the overlapping shape.
But what orange should I apply?
Because if I try and sample this
orange with my eyedropper tool,
you can see that Illustrator still
thinks that that is a red circle.
So here's how I'm going to get around that.
I'll select the artwork,
and duplicate it by holding down the option or alt key
and dragging away from it,
and then come to the object menu
and rasterize it.
Now that it's rasterized, I can get my eyedropper tool,
I can sample that color, I can add it to my swatches panel,
making it a global color
so that it's more easily editable.
I no longer need this rasterized version,
so I can delete that.
I can come and select my vector artwork,
restore its blending mode to normal,
come to my pathfinder panel, which is
on the properties panel,
and divide my artwork.
Now choose my direct selection tool,
and I can select that shape in the middle there,
and apply my orange color to it.
So there are some techniques that may be useful
when trying to incorporate transparency into your logos.