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Clipping masks

Clipping masks - Illustrator Tutorial

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Clipping masks

- [Instructor] Another method we have of kind of drawing by construction is clipping masks, and clipping masks are really useful because they're flexible. We're going to have a look at two illustrations of that here in this movie. So what I have is I have a series of shapes here that I've bent around just a little bit, and I have this circle. I'm going to hold down the alt or option key and drag a copy of that circle over the shapes, like so, and then with my selection tool, I'm going to select both. Now, there's a shortcut to create a clipping mask. It's command seven, control seven on Windows, but the command can also be found in the objects menu, just down towards the bottom here, like so. And there you go. The contents are now clipped to the boundary of that circle. However, if I go into outline mode, command Y or control Y, you can see they are all actually still there. I'll just leave that mode. Again, command Y or…

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