: How to make two white paths and a white fill transparent over a black image in illustrator? So I have this tear shape which has a black fill and no outline. I added the following shapes

@Hamaas979

Non destructive way to achieve this with the help of Knockout option available in Transparency Panel.

Follow the instructions below...








The circles are still editable, like line width, re-sizing, reshape and further add objects or remove from the group too.

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@Sent7350415

First, make sure you Expand all strokes to shapes. Select the objects with only a stroke and no fill and select Object > Expand...

Second, select your shapes, open your Pathfinder window (under Window > Pathfinder), then select Minus Front.

I quickly recreated a few shapes that look like yours to give you an idea of the procedure:

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@Shelton719

AndrewH is right, the Pathfinder palette is your friend here.


First, remove the fill from the two circles with white strokes and convert the strokes to outlines (Object > Path > Create Outlines).
Next, select the black box and the smallest white outlined circle (making sure the black box is at the top) and, using the Minus Front tool in the Pathfinder palette, cut it into two semi/circles.
Select both of these and the smallest solid white circle and create a compound path.
Then, select the teardrop shape and the largest outlined white circle and once again use the Minus Front tool. This will create a smaller black circle inside the teardrop shape
select this and the compound path you created at the last step, and once again use the Minus Front tool.


This should do the trick.

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