Operation Manual

332 Color, Fills, and Transparency
Transparencies work rather like fills that use "disappearing ink" instead of color.
The more transparency in a particular spot, the more "disappearing" takes place
there, and the more the object(s) underneath show through. Just as a gradient fill
can vary from light to dark, a transparency can vary from more to less, i.e. from
clear to opaque, as in the illustration:
A - Linear Transparency, B - Path, C - Effect on Object
In WebPlus, transparency effects work very much like grayscale fills. Just like
fills...
• Transparency effects are applied from the Studio—in this case, using
the Transparency tab via solid, gradient, and bitmap galleries.
• The Transparency tab's gallery has thumbnails in shades of gray,
where the lighter portions represent more transparency. To apply
transparency, you click thumbnails or drag them onto objects.
• Most transparency effects have a path you can edit—in this case, with
the Transparency Tool.
Transparency types available in the Transparency tab are as follows:
• Solid transparency distributes the transparency uniformly.
• Gradient transparencies include linear, elliptical, and conical effects
(each thumbnail's tooltip identifies its category), ranging from clear to
opaque.
• Bitmap transparencies include categorized texture maps based on the
Swatches tab's selection of bitmaps.