today I have several ways that you can actually use photo manipulation
techniques in Adobe Illustrator including the usage of clipping mask in Illustrator
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and upwards with my content illustrator is a program used for vector drawings
and designs but you can actually use photo manipulation in the newer versions
of Illustrator and turn these images into vectors afterwards you can use
clipping masks in Illustrator and it's a very straightforward process first we
will use the ellipse tool to cover an area we want to cut out with the cleaver
mask once happy add a filter to the shape and then select both the image and
shape go up to object click a mask and then hit make you will now have cut out
the image with a clipping mask in Illustrator
it can be more precise using the pen tool to make the exact shape custom to
your image and then use the same methods before by applying a clipping mask
the second technique to manipulate images illustrator is just something for
fun you can basically pixelate yourself by
select an image and then going up to object and create a mosaic leave all of
the settings to default apart from choosing how many squares you
want to add once you've created that you can then ungroup everything so you can
edit each individual square this is now a vector design so it can be scaled up
or down to any size and retain quality
you might be familiar with the photos in Photoshop but they also exist as effects
in the effects panel illustrator I like to play around the artistic choices but
the thing with the illustrator is and once you've chosen the filter or effect
you can then open up the image trace window allowing you to turn the image
into a vector whereas Photoshop is always going to generate the raster
image with pixels I will show you how to use the image trace tool next
I am showing how to use the image trace tool on my channel before but I have to
add it in this list because it really will help you with your graphic design
workflow you may have a client has given you some icons using your design but you
want to edit them or you maybe want to ensure the quality is going to be good
enough but the JPEG is not going to serve this simply open up the image in
Illustrator and then access the image trace window you can create a black and
white version or a color version of the image and play around the settings to
see how it will turn out remember to click preview when ready Erbs object
image trace and expand
nyam it will be a vector and if you improve it the entire thing will be able
to be edited in Illustrator and also scaled up or down to any size so do you
use illustrator for photo manipulation and you ever use it super mass in
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