Images Inside Text 2
Similar to the other tutorial on this site, Images Inside Text, this tutorial will show you how to incorporate background images into your text. The difference will be that this tutorial will show you masking, so that you can have a different image in your text than what is in the main background.
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We will start off with the following image opened up in PhotoShop:
We will add some text to the image:
Once we have the image we want to use as the background of the text, we will open up the image we want to use as the text background in PhotoShop:
Next, we will Ctrl+A to select all of our new image, and then Ctrl+C to copy it. Then we go back to our original document, Ctrl-click the text layer to make a selection of it, and then Ctrl+Shift+V to Paste Into the text. This will create a new layer of the image we copied and also a layer mask of the selection we had (the text). It should look something like this:
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And the layers palette will look something like this:
The good thing about using this method is that when we select the pasted images layer (not the layer mask thumbnail), we are able to respotion it with the move tool. This gives us great controls, rather than just pasting with the text selected. And as always, we are able to apply layer styles to the masked image to further add to it:
You may also want to experiment with different color patterns, and different kinds of patterns (vertical lines, diagonal lines, squares, and even more complex designs). Creating your own Patterns is just one of PhotoShops powerful features.
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Comments
Iversi said on 04/10/2009 at 4:24 PM
Hi, I'm using Photoshop CS3 and this does not work! :S
I've followed the tutorial and when I press Ctrl+Shift+V it do not do as the tutorial say it will! Can somebody help me?
Mark Corrigan said on 07/19/2009 at 12:58 PM
Hi Like Iversi I am also befuddled by your tutorial. I press Ctrl+Shift+V and the image I copied does not go into the text. Pleeze tell us how it is done.
Also I try to bring in an image but it creates a new photoshop document apart from the current project. Why is this?
Mark
Mark Corrigan said on 07/22/2009 at 5:31 AM
Hi the secret, I have discovered, is to use the feature "clipping mask" under the layers menu. Have your picture in one layer and the text immediatly under it. Ensure the text is bold as above i.e. has white space and then use clipping mask and both layers will be bound together with image reflected only where text is. Thanks to Youtube for help.
Mark