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WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

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Setting transparency<br />

Color, Fills, and Transparency 217<br />

Transparency effects are great for highlights, shading and shadows, and<br />

simulating "rendered" realism. They can make the critical difference between<br />

flat-looking illustrations and images with depth and snap. <strong>WebPlus</strong> fully<br />

supports variable transparency and lets you apply solid, gradient, or bitmap<br />

transparencies easily.<br />

Transparencies work rather like fills that use "disappearing ink" instead of color.<br />

The more transparency in a particular spot, the more "disappearing" takes place<br />

there, and the more the object(s) underneath show through. Just as a gradient fill<br />

can vary from light to dark, a transparency can vary from more to less, i.e. from<br />

clear to opaque, as in the illustration:<br />

(A) Linear Transparency; (B) Fill path; (C) Effect on graphic

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