In Adobe Illustrator, I want to keep a background photo and crop out an outlined shape. I have a Rhino model render image that I want to show through a masked shape in the photo. I tried making a clipping mask, but it keeps the backgound photo within the outlined shape - I want the inverse. Thanks for your help.
emarti,
You can create a rectangle to fit the photo, then place the cutout shape on top, then select both and Pathfinder>Minus front or Object>Compound Path>Make.
Either way you end up with a Compound Path, then select that and the photo and Ctrl/Cmd+7 to create the Clipping Mask.
Or you can use an Opacity Mask to knockout that part of the photo as follows.
Give the knockout path a black fill, then in the Transparency palette (flyout) click Make (Opacity) Mask with bot Clip and Invert Mask unticked (in the main Transparency palette).
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