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DDD
July 26th, 2003, 05:11 PM
I have never had to do this till now but to anyone who uses freehand mx.......how do you manipulate the layer opacity. I am tracing a bitmap and I cannot figure how to make my layer semi transparent so I can see the image below making it easy to trace.

senocular
July 26th, 2003, 05:18 PM
Object panel > Add Effect (the circle icon with the +) and theres an option there for Transparency and you have a few options with that like normal transparency and transparency gradients etc.

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DDD
July 26th, 2003, 05:19 PM
yeah that is what I did and it did not make my path transparent.....I thought maybe they moved it

DDD
July 26th, 2003, 05:21 PM
scratch that sen.....it is now working....I dont know what the hell i did last time......thanks man

grimdeath
July 26th, 2003, 06:07 PM
so freehand suppports layer transparencies?? i stopped using it because illustrator had it and i could not fine it on FHMX, macromedia needs to make some of its apps a little more user friendly id say :angry:

DDD
July 26th, 2003, 06:22 PM
yeah it is a lil unconventional where that is located but It is there

senocular
July 26th, 2003, 06:33 PM
well its not really layer transparency, rather object transparency. If you have a lot of objects you can always group objects together and apply a transparency to that group. :-\

mdipi
July 26th, 2003, 06:36 PM
shesh sen knows everything :-\

grimdeath
July 26th, 2003, 06:50 PM
i think sen works at macromedia rotflmao either that or his library is based on Macromedia products lol ;)