From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Moving objects into a clipping mask

Moving objects into a clipping mask - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Moving objects into a clipping mask

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- [Voiceover] Alright, now we're back to clipping masks, and so in this movie I'm gonna show you how to move objects into an existing mask. So in other words, after you create the mask, you can put more objects inside of it. And we're gonna use this technique in order to mask this guys face in the background as well as all these helmet details in the foreground, in order to create this final effect. Alright so first I'm gonna show you yet another way to create a clipping mask, just in case you're interested. I'll start by twirling open this helmet layer right here, and then I'm gonna scroll down the list and I want you to notice these objects right here. This guy, if I were to turn it off and turn it back on, that's the dark shadow on the right hand side. The next path outline down is a relatively brighter shadow on the left hand side, and then below that we have this light gray helmet. I wanna put these two shadow paths inside the light gray helmet, and I'm gonna do that by first…

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