Uv Soaked- Mask For Illustratorhelp!

alright i was wondering if anyone knew how to mask a design into a circle or something.. kinda like in photoshop when you copy something and paste into a object.. does anyone know? for illy?

cheers

 

Uhhh... I don't really understand what you mean but you might try a clipping mask.

Make a circle(with one of the marquee tools or shape tools) and fill it with a color. Set the circles opacity to 0. Then bring in your "design" on a new layer in the same document and press CTRL+alt+G and it should be in the circle.

 

You mean like a layer mask as in Photoshop, something similar in Illustrator?

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Zain.

 

what i am wnanting to do is get a t-shirt and then get my design paste it into the t-shirt for i can move it around inside the t-shirt. which that is called masking the design, now i dont know how to do that in illustrator.

 

You might need to go to a different forum for this

 

what why?

 

Not a lot of people on here use illustrator. Most of the members here use PS

 

Yeah that's why I mentioned clipping mask (thought he wanted to do this in photoshop). I'm not certain you could do that in Illustrator, I don't think they made a lot of design shortcuts like that so the quality of the design could be at it's best. I would just save a back up of the of the vector design then open a copy of the file in photoshop and do this t-shirt thing there, it shouldn't take too much away from the designs quality(not a noticeable amount anyway).

 

Not really sure..

Let me mess around in illy for a few and see if I can come up with anything for you.

 

Read it when you have free time. It works I tried it out

http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/improve...-layer-masking/

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Illustrat...ipping-mask.htm



Zain.

 

omg excelleeennntt!!! thank you!! zainx

 

You are very welcome.

Zain.