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How2 Clipping mask.

In this section I will show you how to create
a clipping mask in Illustrator

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Text
circles

I started of by by creating some text and a group of circles.

create outlines

I then right clicked the text and selected "Create outlines".

ungroup

Right click again and choose "Ungroup"

make compound path

Now go go to object/ Compound Path/ Make.

Text

Now move the text over the top of the circles -
(making sure the text is over and not under the circles) .

make clipping path

Right click and drag over both the circles and the text.
Right click and select "Make Clipping Mask".

All done.

And here is the finishing result.

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