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Day 26: Masking using Clipping Path/ Opacity Mask

By Tony Soh Posted on August 8th, 2008

With Clipping Mask and Opacity Mask, you can quickly mask away any unwanted areas you wish to hide. Let’s take a look how it works…

Clipping Mask

In this illustration I have 3 layers. The background, sunburst effect and the sun. I will need to mask the sunburst to a square.

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1. 
   hfng August 8th, 2008

   Great stuff!! I always enjoy reading your tutorials.
   Quick question, does istock accept vects with clipping mask or opacity mask?

2. 
   iStockdiary August 11th, 2008

   Clipping mask – accepted, Opacith mask – not accepted

3. 
   Peter Breis September 2nd, 2008

   Fantastic stuff.

   I am trying to follow through all the tutorials but there still seem to be several missing and The table of Contents page has gone missing and produces a 404 error.

4. 
   Vectordiary September 2nd, 2008

   Hi Peter Breis, try it again.. It should be fine. I guess it is some server hiccups.

5. 
   Leroy Simpson September 3rd, 2008

   Rasta blood claat man, dis one a bit harder

6. 
   Quileute November 18th, 2009

   ..nice tutorial…

   keep on posting!

7. 
   nitin January 13th, 2010

   please tell me deference between the pantone and spot color