How do I align my brush stroke to my canvas border?

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April 30, 2023
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In the picture, the brush stroke goes out of the canvas.

But when I export my file as a png, the excess is still there.

Is there a way to make the stroke align with the border? As in, make it straight/flush with the border?

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Ares Hovhannesyan

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Use Trim View from View menu

Ton Frederiks

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But Trim View is only a view and does not always export like that.

Ton Frederiks

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But maybe Jacob understands your question better (good morning, Jacob).

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Ton, I thought of mentioning the Artboard thing, which is obviously easier, with a hesitation owing to the word canvas (and the unknown exporting way), but decided to just give a literal answer.

And good afternoon, Ton.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Depending on how you export to PNG; Export for Screens... has an Artboard option and Export As... has a Use Artboards checkbox.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Wee Liang Kel,

You can create a rectangle all the way round the border, then select everything, then Ctrl/Cmd+7 (hold Ctrl/Cmd and press 7).

This will create a Clipping set with everything outside the rectangle hidden.

You can read on here,

https://helpx.adobe.com/search-results.html?q=clipping+mask+illustrator&scope=%5B%22helpx%22%5D&subscope=%5B%5D&limit=10&start_index=0&sort_orderby=relevancy&sort_order=desc&post_facet_filters=%7B%22applicable_products%22%3A%5B%5D%7D

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