AI - Clipping Shape Out of Shapes

Graphic Design
#1

Hi Everyone!

I’ve been trying to figure this out for about an hour and am at my wits end.

Im trying to replicate how the clouds appear to cut into this rainbow:
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ATM I have all live strokes and have tried clipping masks, pathfinder, shape builder, and am not able to get the same effect. Here’s the "live version I’ve done:
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I don’t want to make another stroke the same color as the background that appears to cut into the rainbow.

Any help is appreciated :slight_smile:

#2

I think you do, but maybe not in the way you think. Copy the pink-cloud stroke, paste it back in the same spot and increase it’s width by two or three times. Expand the stroke to a shape, then, while selecting this shape and the rainbow strokes/shapes, use the pathfinder tool to cut them apart. Then just select and delete the leftover parts.

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#3

But he also must create the colored lines to a shape otherwise the pathfinder won"t work

#4

You can also copy and outline the path/stroke of the cloud shape. Then you can ‘offset path’ (not much, maybe a 1/6th to an 1/8th of an inch). Use that new shape with the pathfinder to cut away the rainbow.

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#5

Yes. Not doing that will cause some wonky results.

#6

Thanks! That solution worked. I swear I had tried that multiple times but wasn’t getting the right result. I did have to make the rainbow strokes into shapes for it to work. So props to @Carlo too.

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