1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:02.02 - [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how to take 2 00:00:02.02 --> 00:00:04.01 a couple of blends and paste them into 3 00:00:04.01 --> 00:00:06.02 another path outline in order to create 4 00:00:06.02 --> 00:00:08.06 what's known as a clipping mask. 5 00:00:08.06 --> 00:00:10.02 So, for example let's say I want to 6 00:00:10.02 --> 00:00:12.02 take these two blends that I created in a 7 00:00:12.02 --> 00:00:14.06 previous movie and I want to place them 8 00:00:14.06 --> 00:00:17.00 inside of these trees here in the background. 9 00:00:17.00 --> 00:00:19.03 Because after all, what good are custom gradients 10 00:00:19.03 --> 00:00:21.01 if you can't use them to fill other 11 00:00:21.01 --> 00:00:23.07 shapes, and so here's how that works. 12 00:00:23.07 --> 00:00:26.02 Go ahead and turn that blob slayer back on, 13 00:00:26.02 --> 00:00:28.02 then press the V key to switch to the 14 00:00:28.02 --> 00:00:30.02 black arrow tool, and click on one 15 00:00:30.02 --> 00:00:31.09 of the blends and shift click on the 16 00:00:31.09 --> 00:00:34.06 other one in order to select them. 17 00:00:34.06 --> 00:00:36.01 Then go on to the edit menu and 18 00:00:36.01 --> 00:00:38.00 choose the cut command or you can 19 00:00:38.00 --> 00:00:41.00 press control x or command x on the Mac. 20 00:00:41.00 --> 00:00:42.06 Alright, now we no longer need this 21 00:00:42.06 --> 00:00:44.09 blob's layer so just go ahead and click on 22 00:00:44.09 --> 00:00:46.09 the trash icon in the bottom right corner 23 00:00:46.09 --> 00:00:49.06 of the layers panel in order to get rid of it. 24 00:00:49.06 --> 00:00:52.01 Now click on those trees in the background 25 00:00:52.01 --> 00:00:54.01 and for the moment I'm just going to turn off 26 00:00:54.01 --> 00:00:56.01 this bacon layer so we can see this 27 00:00:56.01 --> 00:00:58.03 compound shape in the background. 28 00:00:58.03 --> 00:01:00.02 And I know it's a compound shape because 29 00:01:00.02 --> 00:01:02.03 I see the words compound shape on the far 30 00:01:02.03 --> 00:01:04.00 left side of the control panel. 31 00:01:04.00 --> 00:01:06.04 Meaning that I can modify each one of these paths 32 00:01:06.04 --> 00:01:08.02 outlines independently of each other. 33 00:01:08.02 --> 00:01:10.03 Just by double clicking on any one of them 34 00:01:10.03 --> 00:01:13.01 to enter the isolation mode and then selecting a 35 00:01:13.01 --> 00:01:16.00 shape and dragging it to a different location. 36 00:01:16.00 --> 00:01:17.08 That's not what I'm looking to do however, 37 00:01:17.08 --> 00:01:19.02 so I'll go ahead and press control z or 38 00:01:19.02 --> 00:01:21.07 command z on a Mac to undo that change, 39 00:01:21.07 --> 00:01:23.06 and then I'll press the escape key in order 40 00:01:23.06 --> 00:01:25.03 to exit the isolation mode and I'll 41 00:01:25.03 --> 00:01:27.09 click again in one of these path outlines 42 00:01:27.09 --> 00:01:30.01 to select the entire compound shape. 43 00:01:30.01 --> 00:01:31.09 Alright, now to place the blends into 44 00:01:31.09 --> 00:01:34.03 this object I'll go ahead and click 45 00:01:34.03 --> 00:01:36.01 on this double arrow icon at the top 46 00:01:36.01 --> 00:01:37.08 of the toolbox in order to switch to 47 00:01:37.08 --> 00:01:40.04 the two column view so that I can see these 48 00:01:40.04 --> 00:01:43.00 draw icons beginning with draw normal 49 00:01:43.00 --> 00:01:45.03 down here at the bottom of the toolbox. 50 00:01:45.03 --> 00:01:47.06 The problem is the one I want to use, draw 51 00:01:47.06 --> 00:01:50.04 inside, is currently dimmed and that's because 52 00:01:50.04 --> 00:01:52.06 I'm working with a compound shape. 53 00:01:52.06 --> 00:01:54.07 And compound shapes aren't all together 54 00:01:54.07 --> 00:01:56.07 compatible with clipping masks. 55 00:01:56.07 --> 00:01:59.00 So what you have to do is go the window 56 00:01:59.00 --> 00:02:01.00 menu and choose the path finder command 57 00:02:01.00 --> 00:02:03.00 in order to bring up the path finder 58 00:02:03.00 --> 00:02:05.05 panel and then click on the expand button. 59 00:02:05.05 --> 00:02:07.04 And by the way if for some reason 60 00:02:07.04 --> 00:02:09.03 that button is dimmed just go ahead 61 00:02:09.03 --> 00:02:11.02 and click off the paths to deselect 62 00:02:11.02 --> 00:02:13.01 them and then click on them again 63 00:02:13.01 --> 00:02:15.04 at which point that button should light up. 64 00:02:15.04 --> 00:02:17.02 Then just go ahead and click on it 65 00:02:17.02 --> 00:02:19.00 in order to convert that dynamic 66 00:02:19.00 --> 00:02:21.05 compound shape to a static path outline. 67 00:02:21.05 --> 00:02:23.06 At which point go ahead and hide the 68 00:02:23.06 --> 00:02:26.00 pathfinder panel and now notice down here 69 00:02:26.00 --> 00:02:28.04 at the bottom of the toolbox that draw inside 70 00:02:28.04 --> 00:02:30.04 is available and if I click on that icon 71 00:02:30.04 --> 00:02:34.01 then I will enter draw inside mode as 72 00:02:34.01 --> 00:02:36.07 indicated by these dash corners. 73 00:02:36.07 --> 00:02:39.00 Alright once you're in the draw inside mode 74 00:02:39.00 --> 00:02:41.01 you can actually use, for example the 75 00:02:41.01 --> 00:02:43.09 rectangle tool to draw inside your path 76 00:02:43.09 --> 00:02:46.00 outline like so and then if I gave it 77 00:02:46.00 --> 00:02:47.09 a different color I'll go ahead and 78 00:02:47.09 --> 00:02:50.05 switch it to, let's say, a dark shade of green 79 00:02:50.05 --> 00:02:53.00 you can see that the rectangle, especially 80 00:02:53.00 --> 00:02:55.08 if I press the V key to switch back to my arrow 81 00:02:55.08 --> 00:02:58.09 tool you can see as I drag it around that It 82 00:02:58.09 --> 00:03:01.08 is clipped inside of the trees. 83 00:03:01.08 --> 00:03:03.06 That's not what I want however, 84 00:03:03.06 --> 00:03:05.02 so I'll just press the backspace 85 00:03:05.02 --> 00:03:07.01 key or the delete key on the Mac to 86 00:03:07.01 --> 00:03:08.09 get rid of that rectangle and then 87 00:03:08.09 --> 00:03:10.09 I'll retrieve those objects that I cut to 88 00:03:10.09 --> 00:03:12.09 the clipboard by going up to the edit 89 00:03:12.09 --> 00:03:15.04 menu and choosing paste and place or you can 90 00:03:15.04 --> 00:03:18.04 press the keyboard shortcut control+shift+v or 91 00:03:18.04 --> 00:03:21.02 command+shift+v on the Mac and that goes ahead 92 00:03:21.02 --> 00:03:24.05 and pastes the blends into the trees like so. 93 00:03:24.05 --> 00:03:26.09 After which I will exit the draw inside mode 94 00:03:26.09 --> 00:03:29.06 by clicking on the draw normal icon 95 00:03:29.06 --> 00:03:31.09 or if you're a big fan of keyboard shortcuts 96 00:03:31.09 --> 00:03:34.04 you could press shift+d in order to 97 00:03:34.04 --> 00:03:37.00 cycle through these various modes. 98 00:03:37.00 --> 00:03:39.04 But in any event you do want to return to the 99 00:03:39.04 --> 00:03:42.00 draw normal mode or else you risk the chance of 100 00:03:42.00 --> 00:03:43.09 continuing to draw inside the trees. 101 00:03:43.09 --> 00:03:46.01 Alright now I'll press control+shift+a or 102 00:03:46.01 --> 00:03:48.07 command+shift+a on a Mac in order to deselect 103 00:03:48.07 --> 00:03:51.00 my artwork and I'll turn the bacon and the 104 00:03:51.00 --> 00:03:53.02 face layers back on so that we can see the 105 00:03:53.02 --> 00:03:56.07 bird in the context of those custom gradients. 106 00:03:56.07 --> 00:03:59.03 And that friends is how you create a clipping 107 00:03:59.03 --> 00:04:01.08 mask specifically by cutting a couple of custom 108 00:04:01.08 --> 00:04:04.04 gradient blends and pasting them inside the 109 00:04:04.04 --> 00:04:07.01 boundaries of a static path outline 110 00:04:07.01 --> 00:04:09.01 here inside Illustrator.