Masking a pattern inside a background

In this movie, I'll show you how to place the wavy, yellow engraving…lines inside of this yellow box, using what's known as a clipping mask.…Now, I'll be devoting an entire chapter to the topic…of clipping masks in the advanced course in this series.…But this'll give you an early taste of what's going on.…So here's how it works.…It's a little bit weird but what you want to do…is twirl open the ticket layer inside the Layers panel.…Then, go ahead and scroll down and…you'll find this box item right there, and that is…the yellow rectangle that we're going to use as a container.…

And then, we've got the engraving lines that are located below.…And those are the lines that we created in the previous movie.…When you're creating a clipping mask, the thing that's…going to do the masking needs to be on top.…Fortunately that's the way things are arranged for us.…The next thing you want to do is meatball the engraving…path, and then shift meatball the rectangle, which goes by the…name box, so that they're both selected.…