Day 26: Masking using Clipping Path/ Opacity Mask
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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