Preserve the clipping mask appearance

When I use a clipping mask, I want to preserve at least the fill and stroke of the container object. Freehand did this. It would be cool if Adobe analyzed what Freehand did better than Illustrator.
As it is, I'm forced either to recolor the container object, or to make a copy of it juts to contain the second shape, which adds to the layer clutter, and has the disadvantage of getting in the way of the primary shape.

According to me, so Hides the object to create a new shape to work as well in PhotoShop. Why do I need a new shape for me to add itself to group obiect no fill and no outline of how I wanted. Just that it was just like a dashed line indicated in the Outline view mode.
Adobe probably does not want to lose customers mixing the old with the new solution, but if it's a good way? Just that it will conduct a survey of the market.
Now it is overly complicated. Here, I made up such a description.
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Why does the clipping mask add a thin outline?

I'm making a realistic looking customizer (similar to NikeiD and Reebok YOUR). I used the pen tool and pathfinder to make each zone (shape). After I made all the zones I used the clipping mask on every zone to include the photo of the pad so the colored zone looks realistic.
However, once I make the clipping mask on all the zones, about a 1px gap appears between all the zones. How do I fix this so there is no gap between the zones (fyi: I used the divide and trim pathfinder tool so there is no space between the zones in outline view)?
PS: I'm aware that I can turn off anti-aliasing in the preferences, but that doesn't slove the problem for web, only print.
Below is an example of what I'm talking about.
I hope someone can help me with this annoying issue. Thank you

Unfortunately, that didn't work. There are still gaps between the zones (PNG files).

P.S.Elements. How do i use the clipping mask for painting? I can't quite apply it for anything.

I'm wondering if the clipping mask can be used for painting on layers. I can't get it to do anything. I'm rendering race car paint schemes. Elements doesn't have paths. I have Gimp but I want to stick with photoshop. Something about Gimp I just didn't feel it

Could you give an example of what you are trying to do ?
The concept of clipping mask is not intuitive at all. Besides 'normal' layer masks associated with their layer, the clipping mask is a 'normal' layer having transparency. It has a what was called a 'linked layer' in older version. The 'clipping mask' layer determines transparency of the linked layer (which is shown offset to the right in the layers panel) to show that the effect of the clipping mask is limited to the above linked layer(s). Instead of having one layer with a mask, you have a mask targetting the 'above' layer.
The difference is that the normal mask uses greyscale values to represent transparency while the clipping mask has real transparency.
So, the purpose being masking, I don't see how you could use it to paint ?

Control the clipping mask with mousemove

I would like to allow the user to control the clipping mask with mouse or finger, is there a tutorial that will help me?

How true, MTSTUNER.
KMcAl, if you post a screenshot please make sure that the Layers Panel is visible.

Clipping masks from AI jumping all over the place in AE

I have a project I've been working on for a while, and have encountered an extremely annoying bug that only seems to have appeared since the latest update...
Basically, I have a bunch of layers from Illustrator which have clipping masks within them. When I bring these into After Effects and add any kind of movement (camera, masks etc), the images inside the clipping masks jump around all over the place. Not the masks themselves, or the layers - just the images inside them.
This has only started happening since the latest update to CC 2014 - it's something I've done a million times before and it's always been fine.
Really hoping someone can shed some light on this, as I don't have much hair left to pull out...
Thanks

one update - we had a look back at some of the previous projects we've produced using this technique, and it's still apparent there (so in CC & CC2014 projects) - it just seems to be much worse in this particular project.

Filling text/using a clipping mask, then using the knife tool

Hey, new to the forums here, and I have a problem....
I'm digitizing my notes for an earth science class and I'm using Illustrator CS5.
I'm attempting to make a simple text effect which is leaving me baffled.
The text says "Earthquakes" (in Impact, 24pt.)
I wish to texture the text with a photo of sandstone. I can do this.
I wish to cleave the text in twain with the knife tool. I can do this, too.
What I cannot do for the life of me is to cut the text in half after applying the clipping mask.
Nor can I apply the texture (via clipping mask) after cutting the text in half.
I've tried all manner of different combinations, including doing some of the work in Photoshop, and still nothing works.
I tried to create an outline (apparently essential for using the knife tool on text), cut the text in half, and then make the clipping mask, but that only gives me hollow, invisible letters which I can't seem to fill with the appropriate image.
Does anyone out there have any ideas?
In case it's not clear, I want my text to be filled by an image, then I'd like to cut the text approximately in half (I would prefer to use the knife tool, as it looks better with a curved cut)
It's that simple, but I haven't been able to stumble upon a solution on my own.
On a side note, I've also happened upon some tutorials for "cutting text" that involves drawing a line across it, then using Divide from the Pathfinder toolbox, but this keeps giving me errors. Thoughts?

I like your answer because it showcases things I had never thought of. As it happens, minutes after posting this I decided to reverse the workflow from Illustrator into PS and then back.
Essentially, I converted my text via "outlines", used the knife tool, then cut and pasted it into PS. Then I added the stone texture into a new layer and applied a mask. I cropped it and imported it back into Illustrator.
Of course, that's a lot of steps, so as soon as I get back, I'm going to try the way you just described as I think it will come in very handy in the future.
Thank you.
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Clipping mask is clipping my lines and not the actual object.

Hi all,I'm using the latest CC Illustrator.
I'm so frustrated and hope someone can help me, I've already spent a few hours trying to figure this out and looked through a number of tutorials and troubleshoot forums and I cant find an answer.
How do I stop the clipping mask from clipping inside the line itself, instead of my within the object. I'm still a newbie and I know I've done something wrong somewhere. I just cant figure out what.
Here are a couple of screenshots of my problem.
The end result looks pretty cool, but since this is for an assignment, I need it to work properly.
Help!

You are welcome. No you don't need to undo, you are on the right track, you expanded the lines in order to clip mask with a lighter image, now you need to use PathFinder to fill the holes (the turtle's shells) and clipmask them with a darker image like two turtle I created a few years ago. To use pathfinder, place a large rectangle behind the turtle expanded lines (compound path), select the expanded artwork and the rectangle and click PathFinder Divide button, at this point you will have the holes filled with paths and grouped with the original paths, so ungroup them. Then you select the newly generated paths and clip mask with a different and darker image. This attach image was done with PathFinder, pen tool and live paint. The images I used are real wood species, that I scanned into .jpg files.

Problems with clipping mask, Photoshop CS6

I have been working with a clipping mask around a complex item. This included a large clipping mask around the edge of the item, along with sections inside this path that were also 'cut out'. I am not sure how, but I seem to have done something which is now stopping me from making the additional 'internal' paths. Instead of these areas being blocked by the clipping mask, they are appearing as paths drawn over the image and not as part of the clipping layer (yes, checked that I was working in the right layer). I have checked the 'outside' path and this is all connected - no gaps. I have tried to set up a new file and start again, but now can't seem to make the mask behave properly. Can anyone help?
thanks
FB

THanks for that, but to be honest I am a real novice - learning in pieces - so am not sure how to check path modes etc. ..Any suggestions??
Here's a screen grab of the work and current settings:
Message was edited by: fjb3012. When I try and cut out new sections one of two things happen - I lose the image completely OR the new path sits on top of the image, with no clipping.

How do you inverse a clipping mask

I'm working on a tshirt and can only use 3 colors (Green, Black and Yellow). If you look at the attached image, I need to make the brown color that is inside of the squirrel mask out the items behind it (corn stalks, rectangle and part of the "R" in "Corn Maze". The tshirt will be grey so once the Clipping Mask is applied, it will allow the grey tshirt to become the color for the squirrel.
The problem I'm running into is if I duplicate the squirrel and use him as a clipping mask, it does the opposite of what I'm trying to accomplish. I need to mask out everything inside the squirrel, not everything outside the squirrel. In photoshop, I could just inverse the selection. Not sure how to inverse a Clipping Mask.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[scott w] wrote:
Monika Gause wrote:
Then it would be about how I would pronounce it, anyway ;-)
Wouldn't that W sound like a V?
In German: yes. But non when I#m trying the skquawirrrrrel in English ;-)
@Students:
Everything needs to be grouped:
For just the squirrel (not its nose or other details) you set the fill to opacity 0
Sorry for the German panels:
Aussehen = Appearance
Ebenen = Layers

Clipping mask issue.. simple one but I can't see it.

I want to fill the pattern into the shield.
Tried everything on this, it's so simple that I can not even see it.
Maybe it's the double lines on outline view?
Please help. Multi million dollar idea going to waste.

Kanokane,
I tried to just give a detailed list of things to do, with no explanation.
Fundamentally, you use a single path (which may be a Compound Path) as the Clipping Path of the Clipping Mask, and you select both that and whatever you have beneath it that you wish to clip.
When you apply the Clipping Mask, everything covered by the Clipping Path remains visible, and everything else becomes invisible; and the Clipping Path also becomes invisible, losing its Stroke and/or Fill (Fill in this case).
So when your shield is a rather thin Compound Path formed by the outer and the inner path, only the parts between those become visible, instead of filling the space inside.
1) is meant to keep the visible black outline formed by the Compound Path on top of everything else, and to bring a copy of either the outer or the inner path down beneath it; this is to serve as the Clipping Path; Alt/OptionClicking is to select the whole path, not just an Anchor Point or a segment.
2) is meant to bring the pattern down beneath the Clipping Path.
3) is meant to preserve the visible black outline formed by the Compound Path (by locking it) and to select the Clipping Path and the pattern (when the Compound Path is locked, you can just ClickDrag over everything and avoid selecting it), then apply the Clipping Mask.
4) is meant to have everything as a Group (consisting of the Compound Path and the Clipping Mask).
Whether you use the inner or outer path as the Clipping Path matters little; in the former case only the space inside the black rim is visible, in the latter case, the outermost part of it is hidden be the rim.

Clipping mask fail

Hi there, I have just received a poster back from the printer and have noticed the edge of the clipping mask of the artwork has printed. The graphics consisted of an image (placed as a CMYK tiff) and plain vector graphics over the top in some parts. I had a white rectangle (brought to the front) running from left to right (to edge of page) over the image, then I grouped the all the elements (white rectange still at front) and created a clipping mask (a rounded corner rectangle) about 1cm within the borders of the page to keep it all tidy. Where the white rectangle running over the image and the border of the poster come together there is a hairline of colour of the image. From the full view of the page I could see the line but when I zoomed in uber close it disappeared (same in the PDF). I have seen things appear a bit skewed in high res PDFs before even when you know they are aligned correctly so I didn't worry about it sure it was just previewing incorrectly. Anyhoo! hope I have explained this Ok... can anyone suggest why it happened or how to create the artwork correctly. Cheers, Sarah

I think I know what you're talking about. A little of the image leaked past the white box.
Shouldn't have caused a problem, but it did. Sorry about that.
I simulated your problem. When I did the following, none of the image showed past the white box, in Illustrator or in Acrobat:
1. Draw a big box surrounding the artwork
2. Select this and the white box, make a compound path
3. Select this and the image, make clipping mask.
4. Now bring your round corner rectangle to the front.
5. Select all, make clipping mask.
Hope this helps

URGH! Make clipping mask/path out of a placed image?!

I'm having major issues. I'm a n00b at Illustrator, though.
I need to make a placed photo into a clipping path, and I can't figure out how to do it correctly.
It's homework for a college course in Digital Illustration. I need to recreate a photo using only shapes in Illustrator, and to do so, we're supposed to make the photo into a clipping path so that when we draw the shapes on it, the shapes won't leave the bounding box of the photo and onto the white space of the document.
I know to make the clipping mask, you just go to object > clipping mask > make... but every time I do it, and I draw on the image, the shapes still leave the image, so I must not be doing it correctly.
ANY help would be great. I'm about ready to rip my hair out.
Thank you!

Hola Carlos,
Thank you so much for you help!!
your first suggestion worked wonderfully!!
however, i have one more question ... for Carlos or anyone else
i am suppose to delete the original circle but not matter what i do ... select it and hit the delete key, select the layer it's on and hit the trash can icon or even cutting it ... the Edit menu says the actions have taken place but when i hover over the area afterward the path is or seems to still be present.
i have tried and tried to look for an answer in the manual, FAQ's and have even Googled for an answer but i cannot find any info at all about how to delete a path ~ most of all under this particular circumstance. arg!
i've looked at the rest of the tut and i think if i can get past this point i'll be great.
i am wondering if it even matters rather i delete this original path.
any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks again for your time
ps. i was just thinking ... can this original path/circle even really be deleted? isn't it necessary to keep the shape of the object and/or a part of the mask that gives the object its appearance?

Issue with Clipping Mask when scrubbing timeline

Has anyone encountered an issue with editing a clipping mask or repositioning it on the timeline only to see that nothing moves on the timeline when scrubbing the playhead?
This has occurred multiple times on different Edge Animate projects.
So far this has happened on SVGs, pngs, basic shapes, etc.
I posted a video in my adobe cc folder to view as a reference.
I'm using OS X 10.10.3 and Edge Animate 2014.1.1

I right click on the clip in Timeline, choose Effects Mask > Apply
The rectangular mask appears on the screen, I drag one corner in to make it smaller - what the exact dimensions are I know not. The logo I need covered happens to be almost at the exact center of the screen.
I choose the EDIT Tab > Brightness/Contrast > Set the levels so the mask is perfectly white (thus, covering up the logo) > Apply > Done
The preview works. When I output as AVI, MOV, MPG, MP4, etc., the mask that I placed over the logo has now moved either above where I originally placed it or above and to the left.
I have no idea how to answer the second part of your question.

Illustrator Clipping Mask

When I use the clipping mask, I later cannot recognise that there is one, as there is no 2nd box that appears like it did in previous Illustrator programs.
Is there a way to make it visible?

CS 4? I can still see the clipping mask in the Layers Panel list and edit it as usual.
>Is there a way to make it visible?
Work in Outline mode.
Edit: You aren't thinking of "Transparency Masks" are you? You can view a transparency mask by option-clicking the mask icon in the Transparency Panel.

Rasterizing contents of a clipping mask

Is it possible to rasterize the contents of a clipping mask so that after applying the clipping mask, you can move the object and its contents around as if it were simply filled with a pattern?
For example, say I have a satellite photo and I make a clipping mask to crop around where my house is. Is it possible to take that small cropped image of my house (maybe with a circular clipping mask) and put it on its own layer?
Thanks!

Landdogger,
A photo is raster.
If you:
1. Create a mask in the form of a circle,
2. Select both and Object>Clipping Mask>Make,
3. Change Transparency from Normal to something else,
4. Object>Flatten Transparency,
you wil get what appears to be a circular image without the parts that are masked out, except for transparent parts to fill the corresponding square; and you can move it as desired.

Preserve the clipping mask appearance

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