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URGH! Make clipping mask/path out of a placed image?!

Feb 1, 2011 5:32 PM

I'm having major issues. I'm a n00b at Illustrator, though.

 

I need to make a placed photo into a clipping path, and I can't figure out how to do it correctly.

It's homework for a college course in Digital Illustration. I need to recreate a photo using only shapes in Illustrator, and to do so, we're supposed to make the photo into a clipping path so that when we draw the shapes on it, the shapes won't leave the bounding box of the photo and onto the white space of the document.

 

I know to make the clipping mask, you just go to object > clipping mask > make... but every time I do it, and I draw on the image, the shapes still leave the image, so I must not be doing it correctly.

 

ANY help would be great. I'm about ready to rip my hair out.

 

Thank you!

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