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I believe I need to make a clipping mask with an outline?! please help

New Here ,
Dec 05, 2021 Dec 05, 2021

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I have a design and technique I used before that uses consecutive horozontal lines over a "photo." I then use pathfinder to divide the photo and in the past i am able to ungroup and grab each part divided with the image staying behind the shape. I now want to do it again but the image is not sepperating only the bounding box is editable. Below im going to give an example of it correct and after ill show me trying now. I am novice on the computer and both my images are bouncing back and forth from illistrator and photoshop. 

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Dec 05, 2021 Dec 05, 2021

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I do not know how you did it with the pathfinder, but I would do it this way:

Write down the dimensions of the image and drag the image to the Swatches panel to make it a pattern.

Delete the image.

Create a rectangle a the top left corner with the same size as the image and use Object > Path > Split Into Grid... to create the horizontal rectangles.

With all the rectangles selected, click the pattern in the Swatches panel to fill the rectangles.

Make sure that transform Pattern Tiles is checked in the Preferences (or any of the transform tools) to move the rectangles and the content..

image pattern.png

 

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I actually like this method much better!

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Dec 05, 2021 Dec 05, 2021

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Just note the image needs to be embedded to be able to be a pattern.

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Dec 06, 2021 Dec 06, 2021

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Hi Ton,

I was reading this post and it looked interesting. I tried following your solution, but I can't get the placed image into the Swatches Panel. I originally tried it as a .jpg image and it didn't work. I resaved it in Photoshop as a .png and I still cannot drag it into the Swatches Panel. I am on Illustrator 25.4.1. Thanks for any assistance.

 

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Dec 06, 2021 Dec 06, 2021

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Did you embed the image?

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Dec 06, 2021 Dec 06, 2021

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Did you see Lukas remark above? The image must be embedded first in the Illustrator file.

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Just noticed that response from Lukas right after I hit Post. Thanks, it worked!

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Good to hear that worked.

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I am thinking that you must have first converted the image into vectors, so maybe you used image trace on the image, then used the rectangles to divide that?

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