selection unusually large in Illustrator

[ashimg23377171]

hello

I am a novice when it comes to Illustrator so my explanation to my problem may fall short so please bear with me.

i have an icon that i have grouped. however, the selection is unusually large - blue frame around. so when i select other elements on the page, it gets all distorted.

attached is the screenprint. any informaiton on how to fix this would be appreciated.

Thank you

[sishamIAGD]

If you have a look in outline view (PC: Ctrl+Y Mac: Opt+Y) does it show if your icon has a foreign object within it's group? If so use the direct selection tool to delete this.

[ashimg23377171]

Hi Sisham

All i see is the following:

[ashimg23377171]

i have an existing illustration and some of the elements in the illustration have disproportionate selections spanning the entire page. for example, in the page below:

the mobile icon has a large selection. so i am having a hard time working with other elements, coz when i select other elements the mobile icon also gets selected.

[sishamIAGD]

Is there any way you can supply the file for me to look at and try and work out whats happening?

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

ashimg,

In both cases, I believe you may have (accidentally) grouped the your objects with a large nofill/nostroke rectangle, maybe forming a Clipping Mask with the rectangle as the Clipping Path, in which case you may release/ungroup/delete.

I believe the expanded Layer in the Layers palette will show whatever it is, and you can make changes there.

Edit: Hi Sam.

[ashimg23377171]

thanks Jacob. i did look up the layers panel. i was able to select and delete the blue selection without it affecting anything on the image.

i think that is what i was looking for. thanks everyone.

[ashimg23377171]

the illustration in the screenprint below is from an existing file... i was wondering why would someone do that though

[Doug A Roberts]

If the file was placed, or it was not originally created in Illustrator, or various other reasons, you could have ended up with useless clipping paths through the fault of no individual.

[sishamIAGD]

Glad you have solved your issue 🙂

[sishamIAGD]

Hey Jacob 🙂

[Jacob Bugge]

For my part you are welcome, ashimg.

There are different possible causes for the creation of unneeded and unwanted Clipping Masks, different versions just to mention one; and sometimes Illy (job description Adobe Illustrator) moves in mysterious ways (some would say most of the time).