I'm going to Control Click on them and group them together. If I wanted to include multiple shapes I could draw multiple shapes, like this, and then maybe like that. You can see how whatever I've drawn, that's what becomes the mask there. Select the image and then create a Clipping Mask. So these are just pixels that I'm drawing. I could add a new empty layer and then use one of the Painting Tools here and draw on top like that. That will get rid of the Clipping Mask and we're back to just having the image. Now the layer here that is the Clipping Mask doesn't have to be a shape. I could go to Image, Trim Canvas here and then trim transparent pixels and now I've gotten rid of the rest of it and have a nice tight image that I can export and use, say, in a Keynote presentation. This area here would be the only remaining visible part of the image. Now if I were to export this all this area here would be transparent. So now I can move the rounded rectangle around. But I could lock it like that and now it won't drag this layer but it will drag this one. If I wanted to move the rounded rectangle itself it is difficult to do because this layer is on top and clicking and dragging is always going to grab the layer that is on top. You could see how the image moves just fine. I could also select this layer here and move it around. I can select the rounded rectangle here, for instance, and I could drag one of the corners of it like that or I can drag one of these dots here that changes the curve of the corner. So I get this nice rounded rectangle here. You can see now the image corresponds to that rounded rectangle the Clipping Mask and anything above it that has this arrow pointing down is now going to be shown using that mask. Then you can see here what it does with the layers as I get this little arrow here to the left pointing to the layer below it. But I like to just use the Control Key or two fingers on the trackpad, right click on a mouse, to bring up the Context Menu and say Create Clipping Mask. I could use Format and then Mask and then Create Clipping Mask. So now I select the layer for the image above it. The idea with the Clipping Mask is that the bottom layer is going to be the shape and the layers above it are going to be what fits inside the shape. Instead I'm going to drag the rounded rectangle below it so we can't see it anymore because it is behind it. I've got the rounded rectangle on top and the image below it. So now notice I've got two layers here on the left. I'm going to take this and I'm going to place it over the area that I want it to show through when I apply the Clipping Mask. So this is like a window that I'm going to see the image through. Let's say I want this to be the shape that I want the image to go into. If I hold the Shift key while I'm dragging I'll get a perfect square. So I'm going to draw the rounded rectangle here. That's a good shape because it is difficult to make by removing parts outside. I'm actually going to click and select a rounded rectangle. I'm going to use the Tools here on the right, the Shape Tool. The idea here is that that add a shape, the shape that you want the image to be into. If I were to do that around the outside I could get it to be a shape that I want.īut a Clipping Mask allows you to do this in a much better way. Hit Delete and now it is transparent right there. Now, of course, I could use a selection tool here on the right. So here I've got the image all by itself. Watch out for if you create a new document first and then bring the image in then you're going to have a blank layer, usually just a white field, and then the image on top. When I open up the image directly I just get that image by itself in a layer. So in Pixelmator Pro here I'm just going to open up this image. But a much easier way to do that is using a Clipping Mask in an app like PhotoShop or, as I'm going to show you here, in Pixelmator Pro. Well one way to do that would be to take that image and then remove the parts outside of the image to just have that shape left in the middle. Like maybe a circle or a rounded rectangle. So let's say you have an image and you want the image to be inside of a shape. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how to use Clipping Masks in Pixelmator Pro on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Clipping Masks in Pixelmator Pro at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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