Transparency in clipping masks

Hi everyone.
I need to clip a big area where some object have to stay at 100% of transparency and the rest at 10%.
Done that, i make a clipping mask and the transparency disappear, making all the objects at the same (100%)
Why?
Thanks.
Ben

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Ben,
A very simple way is to change the colour of heather hall to black, then select everything and in the Transparency Palette flyout click Make Opacity Mask with Clip and Invert mask unticked.
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I'm quite new to illustrator - I've made designs before but really just playing at it.
Now, though, I have a design which I had "grunged" up by applying a texture and knocking out the sections of the design with it in Photoshop. However, I want to learn how to do that in illustrator and thought that clipping mask was the answer.
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Or if you wish use the pathfinder panel to minus front. I think the second icon on top from the left.
Read the help files about opacity masks, pathfinder and clipping mask
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I am needing to cut out circles in an image so that the background shows through. Sort of like an inverse clipping mask..but I don't know if those exist.. And once I cut holes in the image I am needing to put a clipping mask on the whole thing so that only part of the image is still showing with parts of the cut-outs.
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The image below is something like what I'm trying to accomplish just different image and different sizes and locations of the cut-outs along the edge.

I am not certain about the previous postings but here is how to do it.
1 place your circle on top of the image select the image and make sure the image is filed with white no stroke.
2 Go to the transparency panel and from the flyout select opacity mask make
3. make sure invert is select and clip is deselected as in the screen shot.
Works with linked or embedded images.

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B,
To hide what is inside and show what is outside a path, you may consider Transparency palette flyout>Make Opacity Mask (Clip unticked, Invert ticked/unticked for white/black path).
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[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/stalsby/packagedesign.jpg[/IMG]

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For example in illustrator CS2 I have a photo of someone and I want to make a Star shape mask of the head. No I normally select both the photo and the star shape and go to Object>Clipping Mask>Make.
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MW,
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I just have to weigh in on this.
I've been trying to adjust to CS5, from CS3, since November. It's now March.
My job involves taking apart and editing complex art created by other people... who have all different ways of working. The inability to see what a clipping mask contains when I click on it, AND the inability to edit the contents unless I first locate the perimeter of the mask and/or switch tools, has me working "blind". It's become a real battle to figure out how the previous artist set things up.
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[Please be assured...I've invested HOURS trying to get this clipping mask to work before requesting help on this forum.]
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After ~dozen trials...with many permutations & combinations of Adobe Illustrator's parameters...all I can generate is the image in my prior post--with the unwanted 90-degree corners.
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@Larry: Would you please clarify the reference to the Avery labels? Regrets, I looked at the site you provided...yet don't understand how it relates to clipping masks.
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