pasting inside

[dirtyface]

hey dudes, is there any function to paste inside like in freehand on illustrator?

cheers
alan

[jayluebs]

What do you mean by paste inside?

[dirtyface]

there is a function on freehand mx where you can caopy and paste an image into another image. For example you can paste an image of a face into a picture ot a letter box so you can only see the part of the face that would show through the letter box. Its really useful and I was wondering if there was a similar option in illustrator

[jayluebs]

Oh... Yes. Place the image underneath the shape (or whatever) you want to use to crop it, select the image and the shape together, then go to object>clipping mask>make.