Using text as a mask

[Larry Madden]

I am new to Illustrator so this is probably an easy question but here it goes.

I currently have two layers. Bottom Layer is the American Flag and the top layer is a blurred photo with text. I want the fill of the text to be the American Flag. How do I do this?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[John Mensinger]

If the top object that you want to knock out is a raster image, it would be much easier to wand-select the text characters in Photoshop. To do it in Illustrator, you'll have to create an opacity mask based on the text by hand-tracing it.

[marliton]

Hi. Maybe this can be helpful to you: https://helpx.adobe.com/es/illustrator/how-to/illustrator-opacity-masks-transparency.html