How do I hide ellipses ?

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March 17, 2019
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So I am kind new to illustrator and I made a neon sign that you are supposed to have transparency. However with that I dont want the ellipse gradient shapes to show in my live presentations. Am i supposed to make sure that I choose / make a background that matches the color of the ellipses and just build the layers around lets say a picture that i want to put behind the glass part of the neon sign not to expose the ellipses?

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JETalmage

Inspiring

Show a screenshot of what you are trying to do. It sounds like you are making it far more complicated than necessary.

JET

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Michelle,

It sounds as if you should have a copy of the outer bounds of your foreground artwork, or a separate path, as a single path (as a compound if it consists of more than one simple path) just above the ellipse with the gradient, then select both and either

A) Ctrl/Cmd+7 to create a Clipping Mask which will hide the outer parts of the ellipse, or

B) Pathfinder>Minus front to delete the outer parts of the ellipse.

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Could you post an image or two to show exactly what you are referring to?

Having said that, would saving a copy of your file as a PDF and then presenting that in a program like Acrobat solve your problem?

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