1 00:00:00,090 --> 00:00:04,110 Now we're gonna be replacing our image holders with photography and 2 00:00:04,110 --> 00:00:07,120 our design will really start to come to life. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:08,920 First, let's go into our layers and 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,130 make sure that we're in the correct layer before we import our image. 5 00:00:14,150 --> 00:00:18,020 And I'm gonna be starting with the mobile art board on the left. 6 00:00:18,020 --> 00:00:22,510 If I just select this image placeholder, it will also highlight the correct layer. 7 00:00:22,510 --> 00:00:25,060 So that's a bit of an easier way to do it. 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:30,274 To place the image we'll go to File, 9 00:00:30,274 --> 00:00:33,900 Place, and choosing this one. 10 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:41,610 When you lay it in, the cursor is going to be the top left hand corner of your image. 11 00:00:42,790 --> 00:00:48,410 You can see my image is just a little larger than the container. 12 00:00:48,410 --> 00:00:52,500 I'm going to use these image placeholders as the container for my artwork. 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,990 And we'll be masking. 14 00:00:55,990 --> 00:01:01,210 So the way you mask in Illustrator is you have to have two layers, 15 00:01:01,210 --> 00:01:04,490 the top layer is the container. 16 00:01:04,490 --> 00:01:08,880 It acts as like a window, basically, that reveals the image beneath it. 17 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,680 And when you're creating a mask, 18 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:16,970 you want to have the image on the bottom and the container on the top. 19 00:01:16,970 --> 00:01:23,660 So I'm gonna drag my image and my layers over here down to the bottom. 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,066 So that right above it is this image placeholder, so I'll select both. 21 00:01:31,066 --> 00:01:35,800 Then I'll go to Object, Clipping Mask, Make. 22 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,050 Or, it's Command 7 and 23 00:01:40,050 --> 00:01:45,100 you can see now that our image is fitting perfectly inside here. 24 00:01:46,170 --> 00:01:49,070 So we don't have to do any crazy movements. 25 00:01:49,070 --> 00:01:51,880 If I wanted to adjust the size or scale or 26 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:57,330 placement of this image within the mask I can double click inside of it. 27 00:01:58,790 --> 00:02:03,840 And then I could edit it this way, and scale up, or do things like that. 28 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,380 Which I don't want to do, so I'm going to undo, and 29 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:10,075 then get back out of isolation mode. 30 00:02:10,075 --> 00:02:11,430 Okay? 31 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:15,460 I'll do it another time, just to show you, 32 00:02:17,410 --> 00:02:21,233 so we'll have our container selected. 33 00:02:21,233 --> 00:02:28,762 Shift+Cmd+P to place the image. 34 00:02:28,762 --> 00:02:31,700 Place it here. 35 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,055 Move that over a little bit. 36 00:02:35,055 --> 00:02:36,820 I will drag it beneath. 37 00:02:38,710 --> 00:02:43,570 My image placeholder, select both layers, and 38 00:02:43,570 --> 00:02:46,980 then go to Object, Clipping Mask, Make or Command Seven. 39 00:02:48,180 --> 00:02:49,600 And that's how it works. 40 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,680 So you can see like so much is happening already. 41 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,198 Just adding the events, that's where all the energy will be. 42 00:02:56,198 --> 00:02:59,510 So I'm gonna to go through here and finish adding in these images. 43 00:03:00,570 --> 00:03:03,340 And I will meet you back and 44 00:03:03,340 --> 00:03:06,410 we'll be talking about the best ways to save for web.