today educate yourself on three illustrator clipping masks uses that you
need to know
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the clipping mask in Illustrator all of which are super useful and handy the
first use involves typography how you can apply a clipping mask and still edit
the text afterwards first we want to make sure that the text
is at the very top of all the objects like so after you positioned your text
head over to the Pathfinder window which you can find in the top drop down window
section or you can find the here on the right click the button in the top right
corner and then turn on the compound shape option this is going to allow us
to edit the text after the effect has been applied now simply select both the
text and the shapes and their right or ctrl click the selection and apply a
clipping mask
if you notice that you can press T for the type tool and you can still click
into the text afterwards which includes changing the font as well stay tuned for
two more useful awesome clipping Matthews's the second illustrator
clipping Matthews that you need to know is perfect for brochure and flower
designs in Adobe Illustrator so I've got an image of myself here on the screen
which have imported into illustrator we're going to use a clipping mask to
create a visually appealing design perfect for your next project you can
find the polygon tool here and then you simply click the canvas once and type in
six sides to make a hexagon
we can then hold down the alt/option key and click and drag to duplicate the
shape below having your smart guides activated will help here because you can
align things properly you can adjust your smart guide preferences in the
settings or you can press command or control H to turn them on and off select
the two shapes and then duplicate them below and notice the magenta guides are
informing me when everything is aligned equally distance apart
from here duplicate the shapes until you're happy with the orientation of the
hexagons on your design the next few steps in this process are really crucial
so follow along carefully drag the hexagons over the top of your image and
position them like so select everything and then hold down shift and click the
image once to deselect it you can now lower the opacity of the hexagons which
is going to allow you to see the image below we want to hold down shift and
select the hexagons that we want the image to mask over later
I'm going to select all of my hexagons - four of them by holding down shift
once you've selected your shapes head into the Pathfinder window and unite the
shapes together as one vector shape
lastly we need to change this shape into a compound path so the clipping mask
effect is going to work properly then hold down shift and click the image and
the shape together and apply the clipping mask by right-to-control
clicking the selection to finish off the effect change the color of the remaining
shapes like I mentioned earlier this effect can work really well on brochure
and flyer designs as well as magazine design to finally today have a very
practical use of the illustrator clipping mask that you need to know you
may have a design that creeps over the edge of the canvas like I do here a
clipping mask can resolve this issue and tidy things up press M for the rectangle
tool and carefully draw a rectangle around the entire canvas pressing Shift
and X together will flick the stroke over to a fill of your rectangle you can
zoom in and make sure the rectangle is exactly on the canvas edge now you
simply need to select both the rectangle and the design and use the clearly a
mouse option that we did before
and there you have it a neat design perfectly trimmed if you want more tips
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