Illustrator Mavens,
Hope you'll be so kind as to help; I'm very bewildered and can not figure how to accomplish what should be a simple task.
This plea for helps begins with a plain white Illustrator CC Artboard.
- On the Artboard are a few lines of text (black on the white background) and an image. Let's call the item being created a "placard."
The placard's content part works...all is well with the text and image.
What does not work?
Adding rounded corners to the placard does not work.
- Added a "rounded rectangle" with an imperceptible stroke (very dark blue)
- Tried various combinations of colors for the rectangle's fill (e.g., [None], white, black, red, very dark blue) behind the text, then
- Tried to create a clipping mask (so the resulting placard has rounded corners).
I have wasted hours attempting and researching (RTM and videos) how to do this...and can clip with two very simple colored boxes...yet cannot get the placard to end up with a rounded edge.
[Plaintive plea from over the horizon...this should be so simple! Please help!]
Your suggestions are invited and welcomed--please let me know how to create a clipping mask to apply a rounded edge to a simple placard.
Many thanks in advance.
Plane Wryter
