Day 26: Masking using Clipping Path/ Opacity Mask

By Tony Soh

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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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Hi. I'm the founder of Vector Diary. Illustrator is my passion and I have written numerous tutorials on illustrator helping people learn illustrator. My most popular tutorial on learn illustrator has been a hit. It makes learning illustrator so easy and has benefited more than 20,000 people worldwide. Also, I've revealed some of my secret techniques in the premium tutorials. So don't forget to check it out!

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+Add Comment11 Comments

1. 
   hfng August 8th

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

2. 
   iStockdiary August 11th

   Clipping mask – accepted, Opacith mask – not accepted

3. 
   Peter Breis September 2nd

   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

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

5. 
   Leroy Simpson September 3rd

   Rasta blood claat man, dis one a bit harder

6. 
   Quileute November 18th

   ..nice tutorial…

   keep on posting!

7. 
   nitin January 13th

   please tell me deference between the pantone and spot color

8. 
   clipping path india May 28th

   wow what a nice clipping path service specialist. I like it. keep it up.thanks

9. 
   clipping path jatsource August 21st

   Really cool tutorial for opacity mask worable

10. 
    Khooshbu July 1st

    Superb Site!!!! Great!

11. 
    Image Masking December 6th

    Awesome tutorial! Keep posting more quality tuts like this!