From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Adding a clipping mask and page curl - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adding a clipping mask and page curl
I've saved my modifications as Monochromatic effect.ai found inside the 21_photoshop folder and in this exercise, I am going to show you how to place this image inside of a clipping mask and I will also show you have add a page curl effect. We are actually going to create a double image effect this time. So we will end up with two copies of the image, one sitting on top of the other and we'll see how efficiently Illustrator handles that as long as we're working with a linked graphic. So I am going to start things off by going to the layers panel, twirling open top story, that top story layer, scrolling all the way to the bottom of the stack and I am going to meatball Spanishtown dinosaurs. Its name is truncated, but that's because the layers panel is too narrow to accommodate the entire thing. But that's what it's called. I will go ahead and meatball it in order to select it. Then I will go up to the Edit menu and I'll choose the Copy command or you can press Ctrl+C, Command+C on the…
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Illustrator needs Photoshop1m 1s
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Two ways to place a pixel-based image6m 6s
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Working with linked images6m 6s
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Linking versus embedding9m 38s
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Stroking and blending an image6m 16s
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Adding a clipping mask and page curl6m 51s
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Creating a blended border effect7m 10s
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Rasterizing your artwork in Photoshop8m
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Saving a flat raster file from Photoshop4m 58s
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Restoring cropped border elements5m 39s
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Copying and pasting into Photoshop6m 27s
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Working with Photoshop Smart Objects5m 26s
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Adding a pixel-based layer effect4m 12s
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Editing a Vector Smart Object in Illustrator7m 19s
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Creating and placing a transparent image7m 1s
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