Hi again
You were all so helpful before suggesting ways to make a circle, thanks.
I have another little problem, which for some reason I cant find the answer to.
I am making a clock face, I have an out side circle which initally is black, then I have put a smaller circle on top of the lager one, and using the powerclip feature I can place photos etc on the inside area.
What I want to do is make that outside, currently black area, transparent, or at least nearly totally transparent. I want that outer ring to show through the parts of the photo underneath to be out of focus or blurred what ever the proper term. I need it to be virtually transparent so that I am able to place black numbers over the top to indicate the time. To be able to give that virtually outer ring a colour tint would be great as well.
Any suggestions, I hope I have described what I want clearly.
Thanks for looking
Kind regards
Phil Allen
Philfoot said:What I want to do is make that outside, currently black area, transparent, or at least nearly totally transparent. I want that outer ring to show through the parts of the photo underneath to be out of focus or blurred what ever the proper term. I need it to be virtually transparent so that I am able to place black numbers over the top to indicate the time. To be able to give that virtually outer ring a colour tint would be great as well.
Hi Phil,
You need to use the Interactive Transparency Tool for this one
Hi Aleem
Thanks so much for attempting to help me, still having a problem and can not see for the life of me what I am doing wrong.
1. I highlight the clock face
2. Change it to white with the fill tool
3. Click on Transparency , then to the transparency tool which for me is at the top left of the tool bar
4. Click uniform fill
5. Then move the slider to alter the degree of transparency
6. But nothing happens !
I wonder if I am having problems because I have placed the photo in the middle using the 'powerclip' tool so there is no actual photo underneath ?, I may be completely on the wrong track but just an idea.
If you have any ideas from what I have said where I am going wrong I would so appreciatte it.
Thanks for your help
Philfoot said:I wonder if I am having problems because I have placed the photo in the middle using the 'powerclip' tool so there is no actual photo underneath ?, I may be completely on the wrong track but just an idea.
This seems the only reason for the effect not applying. Power Clip your image in the bigger circle, make a compound path on top of that by combining the two circles that I showed you in your another post and apply transparency to that.
Hi Allem
Thanks for your help. I started again and followed your instructions to the letter. This time it worked. I dont know what happened before but now I can add transparency to my outer ring of the dial. I must have done something different before but it still worked 90%.
Oh well thats great, I would like to thank you for your kind help, and I do appreciatte it.
Many thanks
Thank God, Now I can afford to relax.