Opacity is applied at the color level, so you can specify opacity for just about anything you can apply a color to, including the first or second color in a blend. This means you can have different opacities at work on different attributes of the same item — a text box frame, a background, a picture, and each character of text, for example, can have differing opacities. When specifying opacity, one thing to consider is how items compose against each other.

• Specifying opacity
• Specifying opacity for groups
• Creating blends with transparency