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That was my initial thought as well, but the results are pretty good. See the attached for how it blends at the center. You can tailor the blending effect there by adjusting the corner radius. The image choice radically impacts the visibility as well as the background color because of how they bleed through.
Dark images in the lower layers can be paired with a dark background color or even the same image with no mask. See the bottom two images, which vary by the background color (dark blue vs white). Effects vary because of the lack of uniform gradient behavior. Where things become challenging is in blending images with light and dark backgrounds. If it is not done correctly, the perceptual weighting of an individual image becomes high, and attention is drawn to one image, instead of being balanced.
There is a small Gaussian blur to eliminate the banding in the line gradient. That is not the issue. The same things happens without it.
The bottom circular example is the general solution, provided that the gradient opacity issue is resolved.
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I am basically creating blurred transitions between radially arranged images that mutually interact inside complex shapes (not a circle) to make a kind of subtler collage. The number of images typically range from 3-6. Photoshop can be used, for simpler shapes, but for complex geometries, Illustrator is much easier. As you alluded to, the challenge is in visualizing the hierarchy of the images and masks if one does not do this routinely. This is much easier to see inside Photoshop. I can tailor the background color to work since the images are branded that it is less obvious, but it would be nice if the opacity masks did not require that for a more general solution. Once I have the masking set up, I can build an entire masked image set within a few minutes.
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Hi Egor, this generally resolved the issue! Using your global swatch best practice. The only remaining oddity, which happens both in RGB and CMYK is that there is always some visibility of the background with two overlapping, linearly opposing gradients (black to white and white to black). RGB attached for simplicity. They should actually appear as uniform. Also the color at the 50% distance is not even a tint. The behavior is the same whether the mask is made from a rectangle or a stroke.
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Example image. The behavior is even stranger if you shift the position of the white stop in the gradient slider. The black stop behaves correctly. In CMYK, the white stop thresholds the masking to a different position! I think that is the key to understanding the bug. Still perfect in RGB.
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Illustrator 30.3. Behavior is the same in CPU or GPU. I have an Apple M3 Max (integrated GPU).
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Hi Egor, it seems to occur only in CMYK documents, not RGB documents, even if RGB colors for black and white are explicitly selected in the opacity mask.
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The choice of the type of a symbol is sticky in the latest version of Illustrator. If a user toggles it to Static, it remains Static when another symbol is created — and vice versa.
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I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 25.2.3 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
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Profile of the document changes when a screenshot with P3 display (AI 24.3) is drag & dropped on Mac
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Hi Everyone,
This functionality has been shipped in June-2021 version of Illustrator.
The option "Paste without Formatting (Alt+Ctrl+V)’ has been added to the ‘Edit’ Menu.
Thanks for your feedback.
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The issue will not be resolved, but it will be less severe. That is hard with a circle and using n images. They are mutually overlapping, unlike a linear set of images. I am not trying to make a helix. I worry the handedness will be apparent.
This is the simplest case. You might imagine a non-radial example. There, it is easier to do overlaps of transparency.
Also, then you would have to manually size every image instead of them all being the same input size.
I would prefer Adobe just fix the bug. It is just math for them.
I find it non-intuitive than an opacity mask would be in CMYK color space, either way. One does not color
manage an opacity, which I presume is the problem. I suspect they did it that way to avoid handling the creation of a mask without crashing or converting anything.