Adobe Illustrator question regarding multiplied" transparency

Factual Questions
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Sorry, accidentally clicked submit.
My question is: How do I keep a multiplied transparency layer from being affected by a particular layer below it?

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I don’t have illustrator, (I have 7), but if I understand your question, you’re trying to make it so that two layers just sit on top of eachother, with the top one compleaty covering the bottom one (except in places where it’s transparant) as opposed to doing something weird in places where they overlap…if I’m understanding that correctly, then what you need to do is change the blending mode to normal.

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If I understand you correctly, you need to duplicate your transparency layer, remove the transparency from the new layer, and place it over the layer you don’t want affected. So you have:

Transparency layer
New layer (no transparency)
Bottom layer (unaffected)

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Here’s what I mean:

Let’s say I have a yellow multiply layer on top. then i have a blue multiply layer below it [I realize that the blue layer doesn’t need to be multiplied in this situation, but please ignore that]. so with the current arrangement, i see a green color. but now i want a black layer beneath them both but I want that layer to not affect the green color showing above it. how do i do it?

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That’s a good question. None of the transparency choices seem to give you what you want by itself.

This is kind of a workaround, but it does work. What you have to do is create a new object to put between the yellow/blue and the black, make it white with normal transparency, and it will block the black from showing through. If the shapes in question are complicated, your best option for creating the white object is to duplicate the yellow, blue, and black objects, then use the Pathfinder Intersect tool to create an object that is shaped like only the shape where all three objects overlap. Or perhaps shaped only like the blue or yellow objects, depending on exactly what you’re doing.

On a re-read, that sounds like gibberish to me, if it does to you let me know and I’ll try and be clearer.

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yeah, what you’re describing is my usual approach, but it’s a pain in the ass, and it crowds the work environment. I was hoping that there was some simple thing I could do to avoid it.