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Offline blue moon

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problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4
« on: May 27, 2011, 10:21:31 AM »
I have a logo that has a clipping mask inside the layers.  I go to flatten transparency, expand and then pathfinder merge. At that point the clipping mask disappears and the stuff that was blocked by it is now on top. How do I get around it?
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Re: problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2011, 10:29:02 AM »
Ungroup....select the part that is in the clipping mask and lock it in place........hide the rest of the stuff..........unlock the locked item and remove clipping mask.........fill the part that was used as a clipping mask with the color and use it as a Crop tool in Pathfinder pallet (See attached, 4th one in the bottom row)..........show the rest of the hidden stuff..........done
« Last Edit: May 27, 2011, 10:31:33 AM by DKgrafix »
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Re: problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2011, 11:06:26 AM »
OK, so it is the crop tool!

thanx that took a while but I got it.
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Re: problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2011, 11:08:31 AM »
I had fixed file attached. You could have used that one. :)
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Re: problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2011, 11:10:21 AM »
Quote from: DKgrafix on May 27, 2011, 11:08:31 AM
I had fixed file attached. You could have used that one. :)

thanx, I missed the file. In any case, it really did not need to be done, I just needed to learn how and this was a good case to learn on.

thanx again!
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Re: problems flattening art when it has a clipping mask in CS4
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2011, 11:12:38 AM »
ur welcome
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