Removing a shape from within an image

[Stephen Dew]

Hey everyone,

I have been using AD for 6 months or so now after transferring from Adobe Fireworks (rip haha). Found it an amazing program however I am stuck on one thing.

I am creating screenshots for an app our company has developed. I'm trying to get the frame/outline of the phone that we can place over screenshots so it looks like they are running on the device.

So I have imported a stock photo of the device, and created a shape which I want to remove.

 

I have tried putting them in different orders/hierarchy in the layers panel, I've tried fiddling around with the Geometry tools in the tool bar and I've tried masking however I only ever come up with the two results below:

What am I doing wrong?

I'm sorry for the simple beginners question, however I have checked all articles, support forum and youtube tutorials and I can't work out what I'm doing wrong thanks!

Edited September 24, 2020 by Stephen Dew

[Dan C]

Hi @Stephen Dew,

Welcome to the forums

Could you please provide a copy of your .afdesign file, so that I can have a look into this for you?

Many thanks in advance!

[hatGuy]

If you create the negative shape by using a boolean or compound (alt+click on boolean difference),

put this on top of your smartphone layer and right-click > mask to below it should cut out your display area

[Stephen Dew]

19 hours ago, thatGuy said:

If you create the negative shape by using a boolean or compound (alt+click on boolean difference),

put this on top of your smartphone layer and right-click > mask to below it should cut out your display area

Thank you @thatGuy this worked perfectly!