Like MagicWand (PS) For Deleting Outside A Shape

[kylebellamy]

I'm pretty new to Illustrator so I need a bit of advice on procedure.

For the clearest example I can think of, I'll go with a snowboard. If I were designing art for one on a template shape , how do I delete all of the stuff that I did that overlaps the edges of the snowboard?

In photoshop, I would just select the item, invert the selection and hit the delete key but this obviously won't work in vector art as it is a different media. What is the best approach to this?

Thanks.

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[jconingham]

The Pathfinder palette has several options that let you remove overlapping areas.
Illustrator's help file should be a good reference on what each button does.

 

[kylebellamy]

And it does have some options but it seems to be not quite what I'm looking for. I think part of the problem is that the shape I'm working with is made up of 6 curved paths to begin with so that confuses the issue.

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[tangerinewoman]

You can group all your artwork and then make the shape that you want it to end up as. Select both the group and the shape and make a clipping path (apple + 7 or Object>clipping mask>make) and it should do what you want.

 

[kylebellamy]

sounds good, I'll give it a try.

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