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Clip from an image with illustrator
- Thread starter myront
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Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you'd use a clipping mask. Make a box over top of the area you want to clip and then select both, right click and choose clipping mask.
myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
So, if I wanted the orig to remain I'd have to create a duplicate in place then make a clipping mask?
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
Yes, make a copy and then do the clipping mask on whichever.
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
The box must be the top layer.
myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
Ok, I figured it out. I didn't have the rectangle in the front. Works fine if the rectangle is completely within the image, however, if I just want a corner of an image the clipping mask will be the same size as the rectangle instead of a "crop out" of the image. Does that make sense? Maybe it's not a clipping mask I'm after?
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want, are you talking about that black stroke box in the background? If not and you mean the clipping box isn't the right size, you can adjust as you want, it doesn't have to be a box either, can be any shape. If I'm wrong all around, maybe if you explain what you need to do with it or are trying to accomplish, maybe I can advise better.
Attila Nagy
New Member
The original remains, you can release the clipping mask any time. If you need multiple clippings, you need to have an other copy of the image.
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
If I'm understanding correctly, you just need to make a smaller box for the clipping mask that is only the size of the area you want cropped.
myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
Okay, yes, but that would be a pia task if you had to do it several times.
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
True, maybe someone else might have a better way, unfortunately I only know how to do it manually, but you only need the 1 clipping mask box, you just need to make it to size or can adjust it. I just typically use the box tool and drag it over the area to make it the correct size before I apply the clipping mask.
myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
Created a script to do it.
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
Great.
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
if you don't need any of the original image you can also select the image and then on the menu object>crop image. This is destructive so a clipping mask is preferred if you want to retain all of the original image
vondegroot
bad design kills
Draw a box on top, select both, then press the magical combo of Ctrl(CMD) +7
myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
Never! Just trying to diversify. Learning, as I knew already, that things are a lot simpler in Corel. And how the workspace and shortcuts can be fully customized.
This is just a quick way to create a clipping mask. Still not the desired outcome as explained before.
Still have to manually set the crop area. Corel can do it with 1 click of a custom icon. And doesn't matter what your shape is. If I wanted yo clip a star shape out of a bitmap but only a partial edge of bitmap, 1 click.
too bad it only works for a rectangular shape. Tried for hours to modify the script to allow use of any shape but....
myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
Select the shape (text, shape or another bitmap), shift select the bitmap, or any other shape, you want to clip from and with one click, you get a "clipout".
Adobe users are stuck on the "clipping mask" thing. Like I explained, a clipping mask will always be the same size of the shape used to created it. And it will contain the full bitmap within it whereby "bloating" the file size further.
Adobe users are stuck on the "clipping mask" thing. Like I explained, a clipping mask will always be the same size of the shape used to created it. And it will contain the full bitmap within it whereby "bloating" the file size further.