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Basics on how to use masking in Illustrator

This tutorial shown below is useful for beginners needing to know how to use a few of the basic tools found in Adobe Illustrator. It guides you step by step through masking techniques.

Here are a few other Illustrator tutorials you can find online to help you better understand masks:

1. If your looking at this post and wondering what Illustrator masks are, then this is the tutorial for you. Adobe Design Center offers an indepth look at masks, explaining what they are, along with excellent examples.

2. This tutorial is useful for explaining how clipping masks and opacity masks work, as well as the difference between them.

3. How to use opacity masks and why. Basic Illustrator tutorial.