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We're going to look
next at what's

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called a layer clipping mask,

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which is a little
bit different to

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a regular clipping
mask in Illustrator.

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And they're incredibly powerful.

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I've got a lot of brush strokes

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here to lay down these dots.

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I want to fill a star with them.

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So I am going to the
star shape here.

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And within the layer
that I'm working on,

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I'm just going to
drag out a star. Now.

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It hasn't gone exactly
in the right position,

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so I'm just holding the
space bar down as I move it

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into position where I
wanted in the document.

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Now I want this star filled with

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my dots and I don't
want any dots outside.

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Well, we can do this using

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what's called a
layer clipping mask.

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What we need is to
have our shape that we

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want to clip to at the
very top of the layer,

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but nothing is to be selected.

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So I can't have my
shape selected and

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I can't have any of my
brushstrokes selected.

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I'm just going to make sure
that nothing is selected.

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So there's no little
dots down here.

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I do have the layer itself
targeted but not selected.

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So I don't have
this button click,

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but I do have this
sort of blue highlight

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telling me that the
layer is targeted.

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Now that everything's
set in place,

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I've got the layer
targeted and the shape I

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want to use at the
very top of the layer.

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I'm going to this
fly-out menu and

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I'm going to choose
Make Clipping Mask.

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What Illustrator
assumes is that I want

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the topmost shape in that layer
to be the clipping shape.

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And that's what it's
done is created

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a clipping path around
that star shape.

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The star shape at the moment
is at the top of the layer,

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but it doesn't have
to stay there.

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You can just pick it up
and put it anywhere and

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a handy place to put it

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is at the very bottom
of everything,

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so it's tucked well
out of the way.

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I'm just going to put mine at

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the very bottom of this layout.

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Okay, so now it's the last
most thing in the layer.

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I can come back
here and go back to

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my brush and I continue to paint

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these little dots
inside this shape

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because the entire layer is
being clipped to that shape,

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which now is positioned
at the very bottom

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of the layer where
it's out of the way.

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And so I can continue just
to draw in my little dots

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and everything is being clipped
to that clipping shape.

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That's a layer clipping mask.

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Here in Illustrator, it's a bit

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different to a regular
clipping mask.

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And I think sometimes
more useful.

