Adobe Illustrator for Windows - Clipping Mask with rounded corners in Illustrator 10

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Clipping Mask with rounded corners in Illustrator 10

Tim_Dedula@adobeforums.com

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

Hello;
I have to cut a rounded rectangle out of a .jpg image and am using a clipping mask and a rounded rectangle for this. I am able to clip the .jpg image but the clipped image appears to be square, not a rounded rectangle as I had hoped. What am I doing wrong
? Is there any way to get this to work correctly ? Thanks.

Tim

Tim_Dedula@adobeforums.com

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

I have been playing around and I now know that if I use the rounded rectangle tool, it works. It also works correctly with a circle. HOWEVER, if I create a rectangle and then round the corners using stylize, it doesn't work - comes out a square when I cli
p. Anyone know how to get the clipping mask to work with rounded corners when I first create a rectangle and then round off the corners using Stylize ? Thanks.

Tim

Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

Tim,

It works with Filter>Stylize, not with Effect>Stylize.

Tim_Dedula@adobeforums.com

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

Thanks Jacob;
I didn't even realize there were two rounded corners commands. But I just tried it and you,re right - it does work. Thanks a lot.

Tim

Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

You are welcome, Tim.

Teri Pettit

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

It will also work with Stylize from the live Effect menu if you apply the effect after converting the rectangle into a clipping mask. It is just that the Clipping Mask>Make command removes all attributes from the clipping mask, including fills, strokes an
d effects.

But fills and strokes can be added back, as can any effects that register themselves as vector effects which always convert a single path to another single path. This includes Round Corners, as well as Zig-Zag, Roughen, Pucker, Tweak, the Warp effects, et
c. It does not include the Transform effect, since with the Copies option that effect can convert one path to many, nor the Convert to Shape effects, since those can convert many paths to one. (There are a few vector effects that generally adhere to the 1
-to-1 requirement, such as Offset Path, but do not register themselves as doing so.)

Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com

2006-12-06, 8:16 pm

A better solution from Teri, as always: you can change the corner radius later.