Ok, I'm fairly new to Illustrator and I have spent hours searching for how to correct the issue I'm having but I haven't been able to find a solution (even though I know it must be simple enough). I have an image and I want to take out a portion of the background in the center. I've tried the minus front/back thing. I've also tried the clipping mask and Knockout. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated! The green box is the area I am trying to open to the artboard. .png)
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Hi Tiffany,
You have the right ideas how to do this, but atleast one important step must be missing in the implementation.
- Fill your green shape with black. Command 3 to hide.
- Group your background. Command 3 to hide.
- Confirm all the items are hidden. Option Command 3 to unhide.
- After unhiding you will have 2 items selected. Your grouped art, and your black shape.
- Click make mask from transparency palette.
- Adjust checkmarks until you get desired result.
Hard to remember which checkmarks to use, becaus
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Hi Tiffany,
You have the right ideas how to do this, but atleast one important step must be missing in the implementation.
- Fill your green shape with black. Command 3 to hide.
- Group your background. Command 3 to hide.
- Confirm all the items are hidden. Option Command 3 to unhide.
- After unhiding you will have 2 items selected. Your grouped art, and your black shape.
- Click make mask from transparency palette.
- Adjust checkmarks until you get desired result.
Hard to remember which checkmarks to use, because this depends if your rectangle is filled with black or white. Since I work in photoshop I often think the opposite that black is a knockout color.
Disregard the logo that is just what I had on screen to test my instructions were accurate.
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