creatin a mask in illustrator?

[a3dy]

how do u create a clippin mask in illustrator, to many boxes? i want to put a picture in many boxes but it only does it to one box.

[zumojuice]

illy is not great with pictures. You can mask a image into boxes using the opacity masks, but it sounds thats not what you want... I'd go for photoshop...

[Cwilk]

You have to make sure your boxes are part of the same group, otherwise it will only put the photo in one.

Illy also has a problem with clipping masks at times, so it may not react as you would like it to...and not because you're doing it wrong, but because Illy is weird that way.

[zumojuice]

Agreed there....

[Seedy GD]

I agree, Illustrator is probably not where you want to be doing that, you could do it easily(but large file size) in indesign, or you could do it in photoshop.