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sleepingfish · 24-09-2003, 05:20

Calling all Illustrator Gurus:

I can mask in Flash just fine, and Photoshop masking nice and easy, but I'm stumped on masking in Illustrator.

I'm sure it's incredibly easy to do, but I can't get my head around it. Can I make a sublayer a masking layer? Or a normal layer a masking layer?

Cheers,

James

dorian · 24-09-2003, 07:49

as far as I know (not an illustrator expert though) -

- you don't need any sub-layers.
- bring you mask shape to front, select it as well as the graphics you want masked and go: object> clipping mask> make...

I think that's it... but maybe not

tomson · 24-09-2003, 08:43

depends on how you want to use it. Are you just wanting to, say, mask off part of a shape?

sleepingfish · 24-09-2003, 10:16

Yeh, for all sorts of things really, but mostly masking photos.

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dorian i do lines Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Poland/Denmark Posts: 3,191	as far as I know (not an illustrator expert though) - - you don't need any sub-layers. - bring you mask shape to front, select it as well as the graphics you want masked and go: object> clipping mask> make... I think that's it... but maybe not __________________ ... drawings \| sayings \| stickers

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tomson Fisting for beginners Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,535	depends on how you want to use it. Are you just wanting to, say, mask off part of a shape? Last edited by tomson : 24-09-2003 at 08:45.

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sleepingfish css is for divs Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Norwich Posts: 4,473	Yeh, for all sorts of things really, but mostly masking photos.

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