From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.

Masking the contents of an entire layer

Masking the contents of an entire layer - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Masking the contents of an entire layer

“

- In this movie, I'll show you how to mask the contents of an entire layer. And this is a really great feature that often times goes overlooked. So if you're working along with me, go ahead and turn on the bird layer here, inside the layers panel. And I don't know if it makes much sense right now, but these are a bunch of objects that are going to serve as highlights and shadows inside the bird's body. But first we need to mask these objects so that they look like this. And so I'll go ahead and switch back to your document in progress here. And what you want to do is twirl open the bird layers. So go ahead and click on a triangle in front of it, in order to expand that layer and then go down to this guy right here at the bottom. It's a group and you can see that's the case, if you go ahead and target it by clicking on it, circular meatball over here in the left-hand column. And now what I want you to do is go to the edit…

Contents