Adobe Proxy - Vol 2, No 1

Adobe Design Achievement Awards
call for entries
April 28, 2006

The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software and honors promising young photographers, illustrators, animators, graphic designers, digital filmmakers, and computer artists.

This year, the awards feature nine categories and are open to students at post-secondary institutions in 24 countries throughout the world. First-place winning entries will receive US$5,000; a trip to attend the July 20, 2006, awards ceremony in Toronto, Canada; valuable Adobe software products; and studio tours. What could be better than that?

Find out more at www.adaaentry.com.

Events	New tech guides in Resource Center
All Adobe events and seminars NAB2006 April 22–27 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada How Design Conference June 12–15, 2006 Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Las Vegas, Nevada @issue Business & Design Conference May 11, 2006 Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, New York Adobe Creative Suite 2 OnDemand eSeminars Adobe Digital Video and Audio Seminars	Working with type in Adobe Illustrator CS2 Find out how Illustrator CS2 builds upon advances in typography using innovative technologies such as Unicode, OpenType®, and the Adobe Paragraph Composer. Adobe InDesign CS2 conversion guide Use this hands-on resource to make the switch from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS2. Understanding high-definition video Find out what’s involved in making the transition to authoring and distributing high-definition content—and get the best results out of that transition.
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Clipping masks are central to a designer’s toolbox. They mask other artwork, so only areas that lie within the shape are visible—in effect, clipping the artwork to the shape of the mask. The clipping mask and the objects that are masked are called a “clipping set” and are marked with a dotted line in the Layers palette. You can make a clipping set from a selection of two or more objects or from all objects in a group or layer.

To hide parts of objects with a clipping mask in Adobe Illustrator CS2, first create the object you want to use as the mask. This object is called the “clipping path”. Only vector objects can be clipping paths. Move the clipping path above the objects you want to mask in the stacking order. Select the clipping path and the objects you want to mask. Choose Object > Clipping Mask > Make. To use more than one object as a clipping path, group the objects first.

lipping path, group the objects first.