want to know how to place an image within text in Photoshop, stick around as i
will show you exactly how
welcome back hope you're all doing well
it's Tom here again with another graphic design tutorial, this time a
photoshop tutorial on how to place an image into your text, also some cool and
easy techniques for stylizing your text
towards the end of the video so stick around. first off you will need your
image
I have here a stock image of a lovely green forest
i downloaded from pixabay.com, link in the description. for the purposes of
this video I would just use impact for the typeface. you will find a thicker and
broad typeface is better because you will be able to see more of the image
type in your text in black and then resize it to however large or small you want
keeping in mind you want the image to be seen where the text is. I'm going to
lower my kern here so that the characters are closer together which
will enhance the effect
if the image layer is locked unlock it
this is where the magic happens and is actually very very simple to do. drag
your text layer and drop it behind the image layer. from there
hold down 'alt' on your keyboard and hover the cursor in between the two layers and
you will see this icon appear. click and you will create a clipping mask
now your text will become the image walla
from here you're still able to fully edit your text again i want to adjust my
kern a little
you can move your text around last image behind a static. i'm going to show you a
few techniques you can use to customize your type fourther. i want to add a
shadow first, a drop shadow
okay great, as you can see you can also move the background image too. if you link your
layers
they will move around simultaneously
I'm going to drop my text
into a gradient background that I created before my. stroke needs to be made
smaller as you can see because the text has been a smaller
there much better. ok now to add a stroke with the layer selected go and
open the effects window here
I want my stroke to be light in color obviously you can change it to whatever
you want. i'm going to unlink my layers by highlighting both, right
clicking and selecting 'unlink layers'
the last effect i'm going to add is
outer-glow. click the effects window again and with the layer selected
and click outer-glow
and there you have it. I hope you guys found this tutorial helpful if you have
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