PATFINDER CROPPING PROBLEM

[petrab60631600]

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.

[Ton Frederiks]

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

[Monika Gause]

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?

[petrab60631600]

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.

[petrab60631600 · Accepted solution]

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.