Clones as clips and masks
Using clones as clips and masks can give us a great deal of control over how our clip shapes look. I use this a lot to make mock-ups of, say, a t-shirt with a logo. We’d like the same logo on both shirts, but one is black, requiring a white logo.
Thus, we can use a clone of the original black logo as a clip shape to clip a white rectangle with some subtle gradients that match the shading of the black shirt. With our clone acting as a clip shape, changing the original will also change the clip shape on the black shirt, saving us from having to re-do all the duplication and clipping work, as shown in Figure 10.5.
Figure 10.5 – Using a cloned logo as a clipping mask for the t-shirt mock-ups
We can also apply blurs and opacity to our clones and layer them to produce interesting effects, such as shadows and glows, which will change according to edits made to the original shape. Sometimes though, we’d like to...
