Expert: Glen Demers - 11/16/2010

Question
Hi Glen,

I hope you can understand what I am going to ask you, and here it goes. I work or at least try on Photoshop 7. I just saw a, I do not know what you call it, but I saw this on a web page and it is a text of a word or it can be more then one, but it has an image in side the text. I would like to know how to make one maybe more.? I tried this before and, now I do not remember how I did it and I am really having trouble doing this, now. Let me see if I am doing this right. You take an image, you would make a snap shot of this image, fill it in the history and them make a copy of the image, make this copy of this image layer 0, click on the Group of Previous in the layer menu. And make a document with text, click on the eye in the layer palette of layer 0. And this is where I am having trouble doing this. A friend of mine told me how to do this and now I think that he is wrong, I tried this and it does not work. All that does work is I have a text in the image. I know how to do that placing text in an image, but it is not where the text has a image in the text as this is what I want to how to do. Can you help? I hope you just understood what I explained and asking?. Thank you, Glen.

Sincerely yours,

Martin C. Meyer

Answer
Hi Martin,

Start by opening an image and double clicking the background layer in the layers palette, this will make it Layer 0.

Next, select the text tool and type something, Photoshop will automatically put this on a text layer. When you're done with the text go to Select>Load Selection and click OK to accept the defaults. This will make a selection of the type you just created. Click on the eye next to the text layer to turn it off and click on Layer 0 to select it. Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection. This will put the image inside the text.

If you click on the link icon between the image thumbnail and the layer mask thumbnail on the layers palette, it will disappear. This will allow you to move the mask independently of the image using the move tool. For more on Layer Masks, see my blog here; http://glenbest.blogspot.com/2010/09/using-layer-mask-to-shape-your-image.html#m...

Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
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