Change the transparency of a palette

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There's one more tool in the properties pop up that you need to know about.

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For this one. Let's use the layers palette.

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I'll click on the home tab to get to it

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to better demonstrate this next feature.

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Let's draw a line from somewhere above the layers palette to somewhere below it.

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Similar to what I've done here.

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Basically, we want the pallet to cover up part of the line. Now, right?

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Click on the side bar to get the properties pop up,

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make sure auto hide is turned off and then select transparence.

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Now we'll see the transparency dialogue.

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This is a very handy feature

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by default pallets are solid.

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You can set these independently or the same,

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but you can't set the rollover transparency to be less than the general setting.

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We'll set both to 50%.

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By the way,

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the click,

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the preview button is a bit of a relic as

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the palette will update its transparency settings in real time.

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So you should now be able to see the line we just drew behind the pallet.

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The final thing to know about are the two check boxes at the bottom.

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If you want these settings to apply to all pallets.

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Check the top one,

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the bottom check box will disable all pallet transparency.

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When you click it, you'll see that the transparency sliders are now disabled

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if that's not what you want, uncheck it.