: Clipping mask a straight path I'm creating a poster with an image as background, text in the middle, and faux border that I did with just the pen tool, no fill, stroke at 10 px, black and

@Turnbaugh909

I would use an Opacity Mask for this, not a clipping mask.


Select the text and the border and choose Edit > Cut
Select the watercolor image and on the Transparency Panel (Window > Transparency) and click the Mask Mask button
Click the mask thumbnail that appears (on the right) in the Panel, and then choose Edit > Paste In Front so the pasted copy is positioned exactly in the place it was copied from.
Then merely adjust the Clip and Invert options in the panel to get where you want to go.
When you are done with the mask, click on the image thumbnail (on the left) in the Transparency panel to return to traditional editing mode (as opposed to mask editing mode)




To change the text or border later, select the image then you first need to click on the mask thumbnail in the Transparency Panel (to enter mask editing mode) before you can edit the mask contents.

This all uses live type and a live brushed, border. So there's no need to expand or outline anything and it's all as vector as it starts.

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