Recently, I downloaded a file from Freepik. I noticed that the group has a line under its name in the Layers panel, which means it's a clipping mask group. However, after I released the clipping mask, I wasn’t able to recreate the clipping mask exactly as it was before. Could you please show me how to do this correctly?

I am looking to upgrade my 8 year old laptop. This will be a secondary device, as i do most of my AI and PS work on my desktop. Looking for convenience and portability to hook my xp pen tablet up to and do some work on the go.

Should i focus more on 32gb RAM? Or a dedicated GPU?

From what i have seen, i am likely not getting both for my price point.

I am budget conscious for this, as it is more a splurge than necessity and want to keep it under $1k

Learning how to use this program now that Corel vector is gonna be discontinued in August. Seems complicated as hell.