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Creating a clipping mask from a shape and an image?

Hi There,

I cant seem to make a clipping mask in my illustrator at all. No matter what I do, it keeps doing it wrong so I hop you can help me.

I want to create a mask within the gold image, so the text becomes gold. Super simple — I used to this all the time in pathfinder.

Whenever I place the object (outlined text box) on the image and make the mask, it turns white. Or it does not "catch" the image inside.

Whenever I put the image on top of my object and press create outline it tells me that the top object must be a path.

Is there something wrong with my imported image, since I cannot make the mask?

Thank you

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

You can use the Transparency panel for this.

Select your black text (outlines are not needed) and your image.

Click the Make Mask

Check the Invert Mask

(and please change the size of your screendumps in the future, it makes the forum post very slow).

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Thank you Ton!

The first answer was perfect!

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Good to hear that worked for you, Marta.

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But just selecting only your black (Live) text and image and choosing Object > Clipping Mask > Mask should work too.

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You can use the Transparency panel for this.

Select your black text (outlines are not needed) and your image.

Click the Make Mask

Check the Invert Mask

(and please change the size of your screendumps in the future, it makes the forum post very slow).

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Hi Ton,

Thanks for your answer

Sounds about right — however I need to make the mask with a vector logo. So thats an object and not a text box.

Is there another way for non-text-objects?

Thank you very much!

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