Can't use pathfinder on "placed" Image

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January 18, 2018
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So I'm trying to create a butterfly and I want to include a pattern I added using "Place" to only one wing. I'm trying to use pathfinder to do this but it won't work.

This is what the butterfly looks like with the pattern on:

I duplicated the left blue wing outline w/o fill and placed it above the pattern hoping that I could use "Intersect" in the pathfinder to crop it so it is only visible on the top left wing. However, I got this warning:

I'm not sure if it is because the texture isn't vector or what. I hope you were able to understand the problem!

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Correct answer porter1643

Seems like you need to apply a clipping mask.

Object/Clipping Mask/Make

Make sure mask shape is on top of your image.

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Mariam Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

Pathfinder doesn't work with images. it only works with shaoes, you can make image to shape by image trace. Then expand and ungroup, and then you can work with pathfinder

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Doodle_Fondue

Participant

it's not pathfinder you need but a clipping mask.

- your placed image, your wing, duplicate your placed image and paste it in front of your wing image. Select all, right click and make clipping mask