Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

To apply the command as an effect, select an object or group in the artwork. Then 

choose Effect > Path > Outline Stroke. 

The outline replaces the original artwork and is selected.

The Divide Objects Below command in the Object menu and the knife tool in the toolbox 
cut objects in a designated shape. The Divide Objects Below command lets you use a 
selected object as a cookie cutter or stencil to cut through other objects. It discards the 
original selection. 

The knife tool cuts objects along a freehand path you draw with the tool, dividing objects 
into their component filled faces (a face is an area undivided by a line segment). 

1 Select the object to use as a cutter, and position it so that it touches the object to cut. 
(To retain the original selection, save a copy elsewhere in your document.) The object cuts 
any filled object that it’s touching.

2 To cut the object, choose Object > Path > Divide Objects Below. The shapes that result 
are ungrouped and selected.

1 Select the knife tool  .

2 Do one of the following:

To cut in a curved path, drag the pointer over the object.

To cut in a straight path, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you click on 

the artboard with the knife tool. Then drag.

Clipping masks crop part of the artwork so that only a portion of the artwork appears 
through the shape or shapes you create. In Adobe Illustrator, you mask objects by using 
the Clipping Mask > Make command. 

Masking object placed on top of artwork (left) and Clipping Mask > Make command applied (right)

You can also make semitransparent masks with the Transparency palette. (See 

.) And you can create clipping mask sets that mask multiple 

objects with the Layers palette. (See 

.)

1 Select the object.