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Clipping mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Clipping mask
Now let's take a look at another important feature called Clipping Mask which is also another way of affecting the visibility or controlling the visible details or parts of your objects and notice here on the left side that these shapes the one on the top and the bottom those wavy shapes they look like they are only visible inside that door-like shape or window-like shape and it feels like we would be able to move them around and change their position. However, the way they are currently set up this is not going to be easy because they actually cut off at the same place where that other shape is. So if I make a selection on this it actually turns out to be a shape that's placed on top of this other shape and just because they had the exact same outline they work fine in this current state but as soon as I start moving things around if I want to change the curvature of these it's not going to match the outline of the original shape behind it. So what I recommend to do instead if you…
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