Welcome back, let's start where we left off.
Unfortunately, we still need to do some work making these objects transparent.
To do this, let's go back into the helmet by double clicking and double clicking again
to go into specifically the isolation mode for the helmet.
From here, I'll zoom in and as we can tell, our line is currently set to white, however
we want it to be transparent.
If we go to our stroke and click no fill or none, we'll see that it just disappears in
front of the black background.
Therefore, instead I'll hit Ctrl Z to undo and another thought might be to use the shape
builder tool to do this.
So with the selection tool, we'll click and drag a selection box over all of our objects
and use the shape builder tool to create a shape.
However, we can see that this doesn't work with lines and we're not able to create
a shape.
If we click and drag, it simply turns it white.
It doesn't match the width of our lines.
So we'll hit Ctrl Z again.
Instead for this, what we need to do is convert these lines into shapes.
To do this, I'll hit V on the keyboard and then hitting Ctrl Shift A, I'll deselect
all and only go back to select the four lines.
With these four lines selected, we'll go into Object, Path and we're going to go to
Outline Stroke.
Outline Stroke will now create actual shapes out of the strokes we've created.
So from here, we can hold Shift and select the helmet as well and then use the shape builder
to create one shape for our helmet and create the shapes that will be deleting and removing
from the helmet.
From here, I'll simply hit V, we'll hit Ctrl Shift A to deselect and we'll go back and
delete the shapes that we need removed.
All then, I like the helmet so that we can color it black, go into our color panel and
see where the shapes are.
Next, we'll select all three triangles holding Shift and hitting the Delete key.
Now, if we double-click outside the helmet and zoom out, if we click and drag our helmet
over, we'll see it's fully transparent.
I'll hit Ctrl Z to undo this and finally, as one final addition, we'll go to our shapes,
highlight the rectangle tool and we're going to be adding a rectangle background to our
shape for release and you can color it whatever color you'd prefer.
I'll leave mine this color.
And we're going to now add it behind our helmet and glasses.
To do this, we'll hit Ctrl Shift Open Brackets or we can drag it beneath and we'll see that
our helmet is now transparent for the white areas and only is filled with black.
Next, let's group the helmet and the background together using V on the keyboard and highlighting
both the helmet and glasses as well as the background.
We'll right-click, select Group and we'll rename this 16 midterm.
As a final step, we'll now prepare to export this artboard.
Let's hit Ctrl S on the keyboard to save our work and next we'll go to File, Save As.
And from here, we're going to be renaming this midterm.
On the drop-down menu for Save As type, we'll select Adobe PDF and in this case, we're
going to change it from all for all the icons to simply a range.
For our range, we'll remove one and we'll simply keep it at 16.
This way, we'll be exporting just the 16th artboard with our customized helmet.
We'll then hit Save and in this case, we'll go to the top, selecting the PDF preset and
we'll select Smallest File Size.
We'll then hit Save PDF, click OK.
Letting us know that this PDF won't be able to be edited and we've now completed our
midterm.
Please upload this file to the portal for our grade.
In the next videos, we'll be working on a postcard.
See you there.