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Name and save your file as ch6-clippath-hand.ai. You may change the unit of measure to Inches.

Start with a new print document in Adobe® Illustrator® set to standard letter size dimensions.

First the Pen Tool will be used to draw a path around the arm, then the resultant path will be used as a clipping mask to hide the rest of the photograph. Included in the files for this chapter is a photograph of a hand in front of a flat wall (ch6-hand.psd is a Photoshop® document). They are commonly used on photograhic images to “remove the background” from a figure in the image. A clipping mask is used to redefine which parts of an object are revealed to the viewer.

The Pen Tool is often used in combination with images or vector art to create clipping masks. 6.5 Exercise 5: Tracing an image and creating a clipping mask Clipping Masks