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CAn someone give me a step-by-step on how to make the "s" in this logo I drew not show outside the blue box? The box is in 2 pieces...I am pretty new to illustrator, so dumb it down...I have been just covering the portions of the "s" with boxes the same color as whatever background the logo is on, but obviously, for print, sometimes that doesn't work...Thanks!

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kmead6

i'm having trouble downloading the file -- can you upload it through here (if it prompts you that it can't upload that filetype just add a ".txt" after the ".ai" filename and then upload).

but judging from what you're asking it sounds like you want to know how to create a clipping mask. here's a good step by step instruction: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-644aa.html

Philip_Spark

You need to draw rectangles at the top and bottom of the S and use exclude from the pathfinder palette, delete any superfluous points if necessary.

See screenshots
Screen-shot-2009-12-24-at-08.53..png
Screen-shot-2009-12-24-at-09.03..png

Philip_Spark

Here's the screenshot with S selected to show your resultant points as this was unclear in my first post.

also the pathfinder palette explained here

http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/pathfinder-explained
Screen-shot-2009-12-24-at-09.10..png

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squirtle98

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So easy! Thank you!