From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography
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Displaying a photo inside of text - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography
Displaying a photo inside of text
- [Instructor] Let's take a minute to see how easy it is to display this photograph inside the text. Now I had type layers but I converted them to shape layers just in case you didn't have the same fonts installed. I'm going to click on the lock icon to unlock the background. I'll rename it photo and then change the stacking order to bring it to the top of the layers panel. If I want the photo to only appear in a single line of text then I can hold down the option key on Mac, alt key on Windows, and click in between the two layers in order to create a clipping mask. But in this case I want the photo to appear behind all three of the layers. So I'll use command Z in order to undo that. Select the three layers in the layers panel. And then use command G on Mac or control G on Windows in order to create a group. Once all three of the text layers, or in this case shape layers are in the group, I'll position my cursor in between the…
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