Adobe Illustrator Questions

[Texan_Eph89]

Anyone know how to fill, per se, a circle with a jpg?
I'm making some custom gauges for my car

 

[67CowboysFan]

Have you tried doing a search on that subject on your favorite search engine? There are thousands of free online tutorials.

 

[dcdallaschick]

Yeah, but sometimes it's hard to find tutorials if you don't know what they call the thing you want to do.

Draw your shape/object to be filled, position it on top of whatever you're filling it with, then select both and go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make.

If you need more info, look up clipping mask. There are also opacity masks that may come in handy, too, depending on what effect you're after.

 

[vta]

Yeah, but sometimes it's hard to find tutorials if you don't know what they call the thing you want to do.

Draw your shape/object to be filled, position it on top of whatever you're filling it with, then select both and go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make.

If you need more info, look up clipping mask. There are also opacity masks that may come in handy, too, depending on what effect you're after.

What the chick said +

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/illustrator/articles/illcs2at_behindmask.html

 

[Signals]

This should help. LINK

 

[kmp77]

Anyone know how to fill, per se, a circle with a jpg?
I'm making some custom gauges for my car

You can't "fill" with illustrator. You'll use masks like the above link says. Fill is for paint type programs, illustrator is vector.

 

[Texan_Eph89]

Sweet, sounds good.
I'm used to photoshop and vector-based drawing is not the same as rasterizing...

Thanks for the help all.