How do i make a selection so that i can cut and paste

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
May 28, 2022
2 replies
1641 views

Ok, so i'm looking to basically make a selection of a small part of a larger pattern, cut it out so i can paste elsewhere. For the life of me i can't figure this out because of course if i select something it brings up all the paths of the entire design. I'm trying to make a border and i downloaded the vector and i just want to cut the corner off the pattern so i can rotate and cut and paste it.

This topic has been closed for replies.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Tavorguy,

As I (mis)understand it, tou can just work on a copy of the stock artwork in the same way that Ton explained for the dragged out pattern swatch. You may need to start by releasing a Clipping (or Opacity) Mask or Ungroup or something to get to the desired individual parts.

To get help with that, you will need to do what Ton said next.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

If you are talking about a pattern from the Swatches panel, just drag the pattern swatch out of the Swatches panel onto your artboard and edit the part you need.

TavorguyAuthor

Known Participant

no, what it is is this 70's style border that i got off adobe stock. the banner is in the shape of an L so i just want to cut off the corner so i can cut and paste the border to surround some text. I thought Illustrator would have a tool like photoshop where you simply make a selection with a tool and then cut and paste elsewhere.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Tavorguy,

For that appearance I would suggest a completely different approach, such as this or something with the same result:

1) Create a set of filled/stroked paths with those same colours, the whole set having the same height as the border, the width does not matter;

2) Create a nostroke/nofill rectangle with the same height and width and place it right under the set from 1) and Group (optional), then turn the whole thing into an Art Brush;

3) Create a live (or expanded rounded) rectangle with a Stroke Weight of 1pt and adapt it to fit round the text (or whatever), inlcuding the desired corner roundings, in the same way you would fit the inner rim of the border;

4) Apply the Art Brush to the path from 3).

Here is the image for Jacobs explanation 🙂

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded