Thank you for another helpful tutorial with easy to understand instructions Laura. It amazes me when you seem to know what I need a bit of help with at times. I love the way you show multiple ways of getting the job done because at least one of them will stick with my poor old brain lol. Have a great day
Hi Laura, wonderful and clear tutorial! Thank you! I may have missed it in the video, but once you are happy with the clipping mask shape and how the art/photo below is placed, is there a way to permanently combine them or permanently clip the image underneath so it is just now one object and no longer a clipping group?
Thank you!! Not with images/pixels - that's a job for Photoshop. If you are just trying to crop a photo in Illustrator, you can select and click Crop Image on the top control bar and use the handles. The result is rectangular. For shapes or rounded corners and raster images like in the video, you can do that in Photoshop. For vector art, you can release the mask shape and use it to cut objects like with the Pathfinder or Shapebuilder tool.
You can select another photo and position it over the mask on the artboard, then in the Layers panel, turn down the arrow on the clip group to show the contents as I did in the video. In the Layers panel, drag the photo into the clip group, and delete the old photo using the layers panel too. Hope that helps!
Perfect! Thanks, Laura.
You're so welcome!
Thank you for another helpful tutorial with easy to understand instructions Laura. It amazes me when you seem to know what I need a bit of help with at times. I love the way you show multiple ways of getting the job done because at least one of them will stick with my poor old brain lol. Have a great day
Thank you Jody!!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
This is a great help! Thank you Laura :)
So glad!
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Super helpful as always!
Happy to help!
I wish you would have talked about what kind of file can be used to do this and how to change a file so it can be used for clipping mask.
Without specifics, it's hard to guess what might not be working for you and clipping masks - hope you figure it out.
Hi Laura, wonderful and clear tutorial! Thank you! I may have missed it in the video, but once you are happy with the clipping mask shape and how the art/photo below is placed, is there a way to permanently combine them or permanently clip the image underneath so it is just now one object and no longer a clipping group?
Thank you!! Not with images/pixels - that's a job for Photoshop. If you are just trying to crop a photo in Illustrator, you can select and click Crop Image on the top control bar and use the handles. The result is rectangular. For shapes or rounded corners and raster images like in the video, you can do that in Photoshop. For vector art, you can release the mask shape and use it to cut objects like with the Pathfinder or Shapebuilder tool.
@@LauraCoyle Laura, thanks so much for that explanation!
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I was hoping to learn how to replace the clipped image with a different photo while not altering the mask.
You can select another photo and position it over the mask on the artboard, then in the Layers panel, turn down the arrow on the clip group to show the contents as I did in the video. In the Layers panel, drag the photo into the clip group, and delete the old photo using the layers panel too. Hope that helps!