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In this session you are gonna learn how to use a layer masking in Photoshop.
So that we can create something like this.
The first thing that I want to do is make sure that the foreground of my image is set
to black and then choose the paint bucket tool, make sure my layer is
selected and then paint it. And I'm going to skinny things up with the crop tool,
so that I don't have such a weird shape of things a select text and I'm going to
have to make two columns of text.
And select it and make sure that it's white.
Photoshop currently doesn't allow you to
make more than one column, they probably want you to use InDesign, so we're just
going to have to do this 90 using two different columns.
That looks pretty good, so I have two vector text layers for each column.
The next thing I want to do is go to open and i'm going to select, I have
eight different years, I'm just going to do two images your you'll get the gist
of it so I'm just going to choose 4. so I'm going to hold shift and select these
4 images, open, so it opens all of them, just like this, first one hit ctrl+A first
select all, and control+C for copy. Come over to the text here hit ctrl+V for
paste, ctrl+T for transform, select this corner and hold shifts that it scales
uniformly if you don't hold shift then then you're going to get this so hold
shift, select so that it roughly covers this area hit enter that it stays there
and then for this you want to come to layer and go down to create clipping
mask from now on after this I'm going to hit alt + ctrl + G to do this, so they
don't want to come here every time I want to do that.
So it selects it and you can see that nothing happened because I
actually this text here is on the right side so if I select this image and move
over, then you'll be able to see it here. I can move this text and it stays the
same, so choosing this, ctrl+c, ctrl+a, ctrl+C paste if for some reason I had
this selected, you'll see that this comes outside. All you have to do is drag that
below the image, the other clipped image, and you're good to go. Just adjust that
manually and ctrl+T to transform it to the right size.
We're just like this text that goes about that, for the other side you're
going to have to to make another clipping mask for this text, so you're
going to have to manually do that. So I did the ctrl+G there as well, just select
this text or select the image there and then we have one more.
And I just want to I want this to be on top.
So that shows too. And there we go, we have something that
is very similar to this image. What's nice about doing it this way is that you
can edit it you can add images and change them as needed. So I hope this
helped, if you thought ot was useful please share with your friends and as always
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