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Illustrator Masking Help

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July 24, 2017
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I am looking to see how to make this. I have setup the triangles and have grouped them and then tried to clip them with the outlined H, but it keeps clipping to a specific triangle or to the H. I can get it to just clip around the H as it is shown here. What am I doing wrong? We want to keep the integrity of the vector and not make the triangles into an image in photoshop to do this, but i'm not sure of another way at this point.

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Correct answer Ray Yorkshire

give the H a black fill

select all and open panel

window > Transparency

click Make Mask

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give the H a black fill

select all and open panel

window > Transparency

click Make Mask

natashakline1Author

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I finally got it after playing with that just a bit. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Select all of the triangles and make them a compound path. Then select the H and the triangles and make a clipping mask.

natashakline1Author

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Making a compound path makes them all the same color, and then the clipping mask still didn't work correctly.

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Sorry. I guess I'm really not clear about what you actually are trying to do here other than what you've shown.