Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 5: Use of Text: Clipping mask
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Clipping mask
Overview
“In this unit, you will learn to create clipping masks to place textures or images within a vector to be able to modify it. ”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Clipping mask, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Use of Text. Learn how to generate texts as well as choose a typeface and adjust its characteristics to make it curved.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 5 LESSON 13 Clipping mask In this lesson we'll learn how to texturize objects with clipping masks. Let's start. Now we'll see how to generate clipping masks. Previously when we wanted to add some texture to an object, we generated the texture, in this case some dots. They can be close together. We created a compound shape and expanded them. And we generated a copy of this object, Command + C, Command + F, to make a cut with Pathfinder to add the texture. But the objects we added were cut. Now they have this new appearance. What if I have a texture or an image that I don't...”
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Course summary for: Course 5: Use of Text

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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