: How to fill a shape with multiple colors Hey I recently started using Illustrator so still a newbie. I am trying to add 4 colors within the sunglasses as shown in Img1. At the moment I

@Samaraweera207

Use a clipping mask, but . . . it would seem you have a compound path, so there are some hoops to jump through first.


Copy the object and paste it somewhere else on your artboard
Click Object > Compound Path > Release
Delete the inside path of the stars.
Move the new object over your rainbow (which should be a group).
Select both rainbow and new object, and click Object > Clipping Mask > Make
Click and drag it to position it over your star-shaped frames.
Click Object > Arrange > Send to Back

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@Rivera951

If all the objects are vector, just select them all, go to pathfinder, click divide, then ungroup the objects, click on the areas you want to delete, and delete them

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@Barnes313

Use a clipping mask. (rather than pathfinder, as pathfinder is very "destructive"... I used to always use pathfinder for just about everything, but anything I did was permanent, whereas Clipping masks allow me to go back and change things.)

Clone your rainbow (so that you have 2 of them)

Select one star and one rainbow then Right Click → Make Clipping Mask

Then select the other star and other rainbow and do the same thing.

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