Then give it a black stroke and a shadow (top menu Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow). Select both the text and group, and click on crop icon in the Pathfinder window. With the text selected, go to the top menu Object > Expand and click OK and then go to Object > Compound Path > Make. Working with Text – To crop the shapes according to some text, similar to my main post image above, start the same way as before by making some sort of shapes pattern group and then with the Type Tool (T) enter your text. Go back to the “invisible” group that you moved out of the way and if you give it a fill color it would be a sort of negative image of your original art. Now you can easily change their fill color from green to something else. Go to top menu Edit > Paste in Front (Ctrl+F) and while they are still selected press Ctrl+G to group them. Usually just delete them, but for now drag them to the side. Now that you have only the green areas selected, go to top menu Edit > Cut (Ctrl+X) and before you paste click somewhere in the area to select the remaining colorless shapes. (Note: if you have a lot of other elements on your artboard make sure you don’t have the same fill color anywhere else – if you do, then go back before the cropping and change the fill color to something unique).įorm the top menu Select > Same > Fill Color to select only the green shapes. So to get rid of those extra shapes and also be able to easily change the fill colors deselect the group and with the Eyedropper Tool (I) click on a filled area to pick out the fill color.
How to crop in illustrator full#
It fills the empty spaces as well and you get a full circle.
You can see that if for instance you decide to change the fill color. One thing to note is that the empty areas also become shapes.
Visually you will get the same result as applying the opacity mask or clipping mask but this time the areas extending outside the circle are cropped out instead of just being hidden. Select them both and then in the Pathfinder Window (if it’s not open, go to top menu Window > Pathfinder) click on the Crop icon. So once again go back to the starting point – a circle over the group. Select both the group and the circle with the Move Tool (V) and from the top menu Object > Clipping Mask > Make.Ĭropping – When you have a complex group of shapes and you want to get a cleaner artboard for your final work you can also use cropping. Now the outer edge is completely transparent.Ĭlipping Masks – Go back to the starting point artboard (press Ctrl+Z to undo). Go back to the Transparency window and click to stop editing the opacity mask. In the CMYK options drag all sliders to 100%. In the pop up window, click on the upper right corner arrow and select CMYK. Now go to the Gradient Tab and double click the black color on the gradient slider. To fix this, first select your artwork and then in the Transparency Window click on the Opacity Mask to edit it. If you look closely at the above image you will notice that the outer edge is still slightly visible. Select all and in the Transparency window go again and click on Make Opacity Mask just as before. This time instead of a solid white fill color, give it a black and white gradient and set the Type to Radial.
For instance go back (undo Ctrl+Z) to the previous step of having the circle over the group. Working with opacity masks allows you to do cool things like gradient fades. Now deselect by clicking on an empty area and you should have something like this: In the Transparency Window (if it’s not open, go to top menu Window > Transparency ) click on that little arrow on the upper right corner and from the drop down options select Make Opacity Mask. Opacity Masks – Set the circle fill color to white and then select both the group and the circle with the Move Tool (V).
This way you can still go back and adjust something if you need to. Keep in mind that this will be the starting point for all 3 examples that follow – opacity masks, clipping masks and cropping.īefore using the cropping method, it’s best to use opacity masks or clipping masks while your vector art is a work in progress. Grab the Ellipse Tool (L) and while holding Shift drag a circle over the group. Now let’s say that you needed to hide or crop the group according to a circular shape. To make it more interesting, grab some of the liquify tools (Wrinkle, Crystallize, Wrap etc.) and play around until you get something that you like. Select all by dragging over with the Selection Tool (V) and press Ctrl + G to group them. Grab various shape tools and fill an area with different kinds give them a fill color and no stroke. First set up a group of shapes on your artboard.
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