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Establishing a clipping mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Establishing a clipping mask
I've saved my progress as Big sloppy blend.ai, and I'm calling it Big sloppy blend because even though the blend is meticulous and it looks great, it exceeds the boundaries of our rectangle. And let's say I want the blend to exist only inside the rectangle, why then I need to fill the rectangle with a blend by establishing the rectangle as a clipping mask, and here's how that works. Inside the sky layer, inside of this document, I've got both the blend, that we created in the previous exercise, and this item called path, which is the larger rectangle. In Illustrator, the mask has to exist on top of the stuff that it's masking. So in other words, this path has to be on top of the blend. So I am going to go ahead and grab the path and move it on top of the blend, like so. So that it's in front. Then I will go ahead and meatball the path and Shift+Meatball the blend in order to select both objects. This is a pretty simple operation once you understand the mechanics. You go up to the…
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The earliest dynamic functions1m 10s
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The gradient-intensive illustration5m 26s
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Creating a multi-color blend7m 39s
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Establishing a clipping mask3m 34s
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Reinstating the mask colors9m 7s
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Editing blended paths6m 50s
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Adjusting the number of blended steps6m 49s
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Using the Blend tool4m 33s
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Blending between levels of opacity7m 32s
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Editing the path of the blend6m 22s
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Adding a custom path of the blend5m 4s
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Placing one mask inside another8m 33s
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Blending groups and adjusting the speed6m 1s
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Rotating objects in 3D space10m 21s
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Creating custom perspective guides8m 31s
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