To create a clipping mask in Illustrator, simply take the element you want to clip, create your shape/path OVER that element, select both, then right click and select ‘ Make Clipping Mask’. In Illustrator it’s almost the exact reverse. As we all know, in Photoshop, to create a clipping mask you take your element you want clipped, create your shape/path underneath that layer and then right click on the layer you want clipped to ‘Create a clipping mask’. The clipping mask tool in Illustrator, gives you the same end result as Photoshop, but forces you to take a different approach to getting there. You’d think swapping between the three would be relatively simple with the programs working in the same sort of way, this is where Adobe Illustrator's clipping mask tool will confuse nearly all new users.
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Clipping masksįor many designers, the first software they’ll start to learn is Adobe Photoshop, and why wouldn’t it be, it’s the most powerful and versatile out of the ‘big three’ – Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Here are a few things I wish I knew when I first started using it which may stop you going mad… 1. Well, just a few thoughts there, for making your own custom tool.Adobe Illustrator is a very popular piece of software used for creating illustrations but I have spent countless hours using it in the past. Then the strokes can be removed all at once, after you're finished. Or maybe put a bright colored stroke on the squares, which can be used for selection. So if the color needs to be precise, that won't work. But it would affect the color which the Dropper tool chooses. That 1 % opacity would allow easy selecting. With the squares being black, you have to have the raster image to the side, so it get's cumbersome scrolling back and forth.Īlthough if the squares are transparent, you have to select by dragging a selection box, which will get tricky for inner squares. Then you could put the raster image under the grid, and make it easier to color each square. I think I might make the squares transparent. You could easily make the grid larger than 16 x 16, but keep an eye on the file size. Then you can use the Dropper tool to select the color of each pixel. This will allow the pixels to show when you zoom in. Import the raster image using Blocky (Optimize Speed) option in the Import dialog.
Then the fill color of the closed path will be changed to the color from the Dropper tool. First select the closed path or shape, then put the Dropper tool over the color you want to choose, and click. Then if you want to use a color from an imported image in the file, you can use the Dropper tool to choose that color and change the color of the closed path that you already filled. (Click on a color from the palette, or configure a custom color using Fill and Stroke dialog.) But if you have something that's already a closed path or shape, I would use the traditional fill. The Paint Bucket tool is meant to be used in cases where it's inconvenient to create closed paths where a traditional fill can be used. But instead of using the Paint Bucket tool, I would use the traditional vector fill. Typically, you would draw the square (using the video as an example). Inkscape also has a Dropper tool, which can detect the color which is under it, at any given pixel.īut they don't work together like in the video you showed. Fill it first, then change it to the color you want. It has a Paint Bucket tool which will fill bounded areas.
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