Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tutorial – Opacity and Blending

Trainer Andy Anderson guides you through the transparency and layer blending modes in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial. He goes step by step through options available in Illustrator’s Transparency panel that users coming from Photoshop will find especially helpful.
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I have been using Illustrator Cs5 for a long time to draw cartoons and I’ve always set the opacity fairly low and used the pencil tool to draw. I don’t understand how to lock the opacity settings for a tool/layer in CS6. Is there anyway I can continue to draw in a set opacity instead of having to click each object and set its opacity? Any help would be appreciated!!
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