: How to make these elements transparent instead of colour? (Illustrator) Just a quick question. I'm working on a couple of shirt designs, and I want the print to be single colour. However, There

@Berumen635

Solved it! It was so simple, wonder why I didn't think of it! I just selected both the outlined text and the box and clicked 'Minus front' on Pathfinder panel. If there was something behind it I just used the eraser tool. Took like a couple of minutes to go through all the designs.

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@Goswami567

Click Window > Transparency, to bring up the Transparency panel
Select the text, and cut it (CTRL+X).
Select the blue box
Double Click the mask box in the Transparency panel
Paste in Place (CTRL+Shift V)
Uncheck the "clip" option
Click on the blue box square in the Transparency Panel to stop editing the opacity mask.

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@Pierce403

Are the texts outlined or expanded? If it is expanded you/printer can cut through the blue boxes or the white text will have it shapes embedded with the blue and then they can print only the blue plate.

Take time to study the difference of outlined/expanded and not expanded/editable white texts through the screenshot provided.

I have two set of rectangle with text here for example. the upper group is not outlined or it is still editable while the lower one is expanded.



It look like the same right but they are different. You can see it clearly if you are in outline view. Press Ctrl+Y or Go to Otline view. Here you can see the upper part is solid black or currently as text and the lower part have outline shapes






To achieve the transparent texts you must use patfinder options.(for this example i use divide. You can also use other option like minus front (given the white text is in front))

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