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DanielHarsh
05-03-2006, 04:02 PM
I'm trying follow Matt Kloskowski's tutorial from March/April. I get the image placed and I can make a rectangle then things sort of fall apart. As I create more rectangle the program does not create more layers as mentioned in the article. Once I have grouped the boxes and create the Opacity Mask the program again does not respond the way it described in the article. As is I'm sure obvious :confused: I'm very green with this process. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, Daniel:)
scottie
05-03-2006, 04:22 PM
I'm trying follow Matt Kloskowski's tutorial from March/April. I get the image placed and I can make a rectangle then things sort of fall apart. As I create more rectangle the program does not create more layers as mentioned in the article. Once I have grouped the boxes and create the Opacity Mask the program again does not respond the way it described in the article. As is I'm sure obvious :confused: I'm very green with this process. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, Daniel:)

From what I can decipher from your question your trying to follow a Photoshop tutorial in Illustrator. What www. is the Matt Kloskowski tutorial on?

If you want to mask and item in AI do this. Open or place a photo or some image, bitmap or vector it doesn't matter. Now, draw a star on top of the placed image, give the star a stroke and no fill. Now select both the star and image. With both selected press apple-7. You've just created a mask. You can use any shape, even draw one with the pen tool. Make sure the shape you draw with the pen tool is closed. Hope this helps.
DanielHarsh
05-03-2006, 06:05 PM
The tutorial was in the current issue of the Layers Magazine.:)
scottie
05-04-2006, 08:46 AM
The city and moon reflecting on the water?
If it is the "city and moon tutorial" just run the tutorial and stop it at each step, do what he is showing you step by step. It's very straight forward.
DanielHarsh
05-08-2006, 10:00 PM
It is in the magazine, not a live tutorial. Thanks
scottie
05-09-2006, 10:05 AM
in the www.layersmagazine.com...if you can post here then you can watch the video tutorial.