PATFINDER CROPPING PROBLEM

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August 29, 2021
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Hello! I ´d like to ask you, I created an autumn leaves pattern, I tried to crop the pattern via pathfinder - crop tool. After cropping some of the elemnts were not cropped properly, and there are also a lot of the missing parts. Around leaves are weird gradient rectangles.

I tried also to make a clipping mask and then to crop, the effect is the same.

Could you, please, advise me how to solve this issue?

Thank you.

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Correct answer petrab60631600

I got it. I isolated all groups inside in the leaf. There was more...Ungrouped them, and I saw that there was gradient mesh.

I removed it, I took the basic shape of the leaf, that is one colored, I put all splashes back to this leaf. I made a compound path and I tried to make repeatable pattern - via pathfinder, crop tool. It works.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

What kind of base elements did you use for this? How did this artwork look before cropping?

Exactly what did you do in the pathfinder panel?

petrab60631600Author

Inspiring

I created a hand drawn little splashes that look like the watercolor effect. The some parts have lower opacity because of this effect. I created the clipping mask to make them inside of the leaves.

The problems have these leaves: 1.,4.,6.,8.

When I finished the banner, I coppied the background to the top. I made clip.mas. Then I cropped via pathfinder. And this happened.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Why crop? A clipping mask should be enough to hide unwanted elements.

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