Tint a layer (or a group of objects) in illustrator?
In Illustrator I want to give a whole layer of objects a common tint. But I do not want to also color any transparent background. Also, I want to be able to continue drawing on the tinted layer with all subsequent objects become tinted as well.In Photoshop, I'd just place a single color layer above the artwork layer, set it's blending mode to darken or multiply and opacity to some fitting value. I just cannot figure out how to do something equally trivial in illustrator.Anybody has an idea?
Hello! You can do this using the "Appearance Panel" in Illustrator. I would place all the objects I would like to tint onto one single layer then click the circle on that layer, this lets you add effects to anything that enters that layer. In the appearance panel you can click "add fill" and make sure that fill is above the contents of the layer and set any color you would like along with blending mode. If you need to remove the color of all the objects on a layer you could add a white fill at 100% with the blending mode saturation to make the whole layer grayscale. You could have both!
