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Stop Illustrator from selecting masked areas

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 2, 2017
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I am using illustrator 2017 and it seems that they have changed the way the selection tool works with masked images. Previously, if you clicked on an area of an image hidden by a mask, Illustrator did not select the image. Now the selection tool seems to work as if there was no mask at all. Even though the image is hidden by it's own mask, clicking outside the mask(but still on the image) causes illustrator to select the image.

This is driving me insane. It makes selecting anything behind the mask impossible. Very frustrating. Does anyone know if there is a preference I can change so that Illustrator only selects the image when I click on the visible parts, as opposed the the masked parts. Please help.

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haryigit

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I'm having the same problem. version 27. In the last message, he mentioned the nested masking situation. Actually, I solved the situation that way before. Of course, how the mask automatically appears on an image I upload is another question mark. I checked if there was any grouping or mask in the inner image. I tried lots of variations. I even checked whether it affects whether it is embedded or not. However, interestingly, sometimes parts of the masked image outside the mask can be selected. I couldn't figure out why he did this. Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't. My purpose was to give a stroke or offset to the mask of a masked image using the Apparance menu. As I said, this doesn't always work and I couldn't understand why it works.

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MangoWang

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Hi, I ran into the same problem just now. But I found out it's due to my operation error. Just for you reference.

I didn't establish the mask correctly. Let's say I have the original image1. I did a clip first so it becomes image2, then did a mask image3 while the mask is larger than image2 . So when I hover on it, it would select the larger one, i.e. image3. Therefore, it's working as it should, i.e. selecting mask which is larger.

Also, after I did mask correctly, from the property panel, I could see edit the path or content correctly.

Not sure if you ran into similar problem. Hope it's helpful.

Mango

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yucolabjames

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In 2019 this is still happening, masked contents are being selected... this is mother of annoyance.

Ton Frederiks

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Clipping Mask or Opacity Mask?

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yucolabjames

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clipping mask

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mecdos

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this just happened to me on 2018 and high sierra. had never experience it before and it happened to 1 document. if i copied the clippled images from that document to another, the selection issue carried over, but only on the copied objects.

i can not replicate the behavior with other documents or new documents. i created new documents while i was having this issue and selection worked normal.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Try if restarting Illustrator, computer or resetting preferences helps.

It is not supposed to work that way.

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rrswansAuthor

Participant

Yes I already tried that... didn't work

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

And you did not by accident checked the Edit Contents button?

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