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Delete outside of clipping mask in illustrator


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#1 johnbraduly

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Posted 13 November 2008 - 07:23 PM

Hi,

Could you please give me guidance how I can delete contents which are outside of clipping mask?

Thanks.
John

#2 _Redrum

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Posted 16 November 2008 - 08:17 PM

Make sure all your shapes are in the same layer. Then go to the layers palette and make sure your mask shape is the very top object in the layer. After that, just click on the "Make/Release Clipping Mask" button at the bottom-left of the layers palette. If you want, you can also group the objects together afterwards to make them easier to move around and transform.

There's another option. You could select all of the shapes including the mask, then right-click and select "Make Clipping Mask". This method isn't as good because it groups all of the shapes together and does not provide an "Ungroup" option.

I'm not an expert on plain clipping masks, but I think they are somewhat limited. You should consider using Opacity Masks instead. I think there's a tutorial on them in the Adobe Video Workshop.

Good luck!

#3 xpressions

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 03:34 PM

I tried what _redrum suggested, but, it didn't work for me....

What I did instead was: create the clipping mask and then in the pathfinder pallette I clicked on "trim", expanded it and ungrouped. This trimmed off the excess outside of the clipping mask.

Hope that helps....

Edited by xpressions, 23 January 2009 - 04:07 PM.


#4 yossmoss

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Posted 31 March 2009 - 09:46 AM

upgrade to CS4 and all your problems will be solved ;)

#5 jecrt

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Posted 31 March 2009 - 12:43 PM

group everything that you want to clip, the put the mask shape on top (not grouped) - then clip (command + 7)

#6 speedyboy3

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Posted 30 November 2012 - 04:52 PM

thnkx

#7 Almeida

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Posted 16 December 2012 - 07:22 PM

Obrigado!!

#8 Dskwkrs

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Posted 22 April 2013 - 07:01 AM

select same color weld compound path select mask copy use that to crop to image you want... If that was the only thing clipped then you can delete the mask.. no use for it... If you doing a raster image then you need to note the size of the mask and take it to photoshop and resize.. ALWAYS DOWN never up.. If going up then never more than 2x if using an image that is 300 dpi ,more if you have 1200 dpi to support your res lost..

#9 HAZZ

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Posted 03 June 2013 - 08:54 PM

which version of illustrator u r using?




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