1. Working with Clipping MasksClipping a layer into a text layer| 00:00 | Now, to begin our lesson,
let's go to the exercise files.
| | 00:02 | Let's open up myDesign.psd.
| | 00:03 | Now, if you don't have access to the exercise
files, you can create your own Photoshop file
| | 00:09 | from scratch and follow along.
| | 00:10 | So here, we have a
Photoshop file with a text layer.
| | 00:14 | This one here says San Francisco at the top,
a second text layer with just some dummy text.
| | 00:19 | We have a folder of highlights that just
highlight a couple of the tiles on the background, and
| | 00:23 | then a background layer.
| | 00:25 | So, now let's come back to the exercise files.
| | 00:28 | Let's open up bay_area_panoramic, or again,
you can open up any other JPEG file that's
| | 00:32 | the width of your text.
| | 00:33 | Now, from this file here,
let's come over to the Layers panel.
| | 00:37 | Let's drag the layer into the myDesign.psd.
| | 00:39 | Now that that's in place, let's come
back here and close the original file.
| | 00:46 | Back in our composition file,
I am going to double-click Layer 1.
| | 00:49 | We'll just rename this panoramic.
| | 00:53 | And what I want to do here is only have
the photograph show inside of the text.
| | 00:57 | So, what we're going to do with the Panoramic
layer selected, and having it right above the
| | 01:01 | San Francisco text layer, let's come up to the
Layers panel, come down and choose Create Clipping Mask.
| | 01:08 | What that's going to do is take all of the
positive pixels on the San Francisco layer
| | 01:12 | and only show the artwork in
the layer above, that's clipped in.
| | 01:15 | Now, if I switch to my Move tool and move
the photograph around, you can see we can
| | 01:20 | move this inside of here.
| | 01:22 | We're not destroying or making any
changes to the pixels on the panoramic layer.
| | 01:27 | They're only showing on the canvas when
they intersect with the positive pixels in the
| | 01:30 | text layer underneath.
| | 01:31 | Now, there are two additional
ways we can assign a clipping layer.
| | 01:34 | I'm going to undo this clipping layer.
| | 01:36 | The first one is, if you get your cursor
between the two layers, hold the Option key.
| | 01:40 | You'll see the icon change into this
little square with the down arrow selected.
| | 01:45 | If we click on this, that will
also create a clipping layer.
| | 01:47 | Then clicking it again will
remove the clipping layer.
| | 01:50 | The other option is we
can use a keyboard shortcut.
| | 01:52 | On the Mac we can do Command+Option+G, or on
the Windows computer we can do Ctrl+Option+G.,
| | 01:58 | and this will act as a toggle.
| | 01:59 | So, each time you select that key command,
it will either create the clipping group
| | 02:03 | or release the clipping group.
| | 02:04 | Now, another nice effect that we have with
clipping groups is if we add effects onto
| | 02:09 | the base layer, the effects will add on
to the layer above that's being clipped in.
| | 02:14 | So, to demonstrate this, let's come down
and select the San Francisco text layer.
| | 02:18 | At the bottom of the Layers panel,
let's come down and activate some effects.
| | 02:21 | Let's first come up and choose Stroke.
| | 02:26 | And move this over, so we can
see the canvas in the background.
| | 02:29 | So, for the Size, let's come
down here and pick 2 pixels.
| | 02:33 | Let's choose Outside for the Position.
| | 02:36 | And under Color, let's select our swatch,
and let's come up here and choose White.
| | 02:40 | Now, with our Layer Styles still open,
let's come down and activate Inner Shadow.
| | 02:47 | Let's leave the Blend Mode on Multiply.
| | 02:49 | Let's come in here and change the color from
black to, let's come up and select a blue
| | 02:55 | color. Make that a little
bit darker. We'll choose OK.
| | 02:59 | And what you'll notice here is the Inner
Shadow is showing up on top of the panoramic layer.
| | 03:04 | So, what the clipping group does is it
takes the artwork from the layer above, puts it
| | 03:09 | underneath the effects.
| | 03:10 | So, Our Inner Shadow, which is on a text
layer under the panoramic, is showing up on top of
| | 03:15 | the pixels from the panoramic layer.
| | 03:18 | Let's change a few more properties here.
| | 03:20 | Let's come down and change the Opacity to 50%.
| | 03:24 | We're going to leave 90
degrees and Global Light.
| | 03:27 | Down here for Distance, let's come down and
change this to 10 pixels, 0 on the Choke,
| | 03:32 | and we'll set the Size to 8 pixels.
| | 03:34 | Lastly, let's come down to Drop Shadow.
| | 03:37 | Let's activate the drop shadow.
| | 03:38 | We'll leave the color black.
| | 03:39 | We're going to set the Opacity to 60%.
| | 03:44 | Let's tab down, 5 pixels on Distance, 0 on the
Spread, and we'll leave the Size at 5 pixels as well.
| | 03:50 | Now, we'll click OK.
| | 03:51 | So, now we have that panoramic photo
clip grouped into a text layer that has a series of effects,
| | 03:57 | and the effects, again, are being applied as if the
panoramic layer was actually part of the text layer.
| | 04:03 | So, the Inner Shadow, Stroke, and Drop
Shadow are being applied after the panoramic layer
| | 04:08 | is being clipped into San Francisco text layer.
| | 04:10 | Now, another nice effect here is that we can
come in here and change the text since it's
| | 04:14 | still live text, and all of the effects
and the clipping layers will still be applied
| | 04:18 | as we make text changes to that text layer.
| | 04:20 | So, now that we have a photo clipped into text,
next we'll look at clipping photos into shapes.
| | 04:24 |
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| Clipping a layer into a basic shape| 00:00 | Now, another way clipping layers can really
help you with your layout is if you want to
| | 00:04 | have a specific size for your
photography that fits within a layout or a grid.
| | 00:08 | So, what I'm going to do here is
switch over to the Marquee Selection tool.
| | 00:11 | I'm going to come down,
select the Highlights layer.
| | 00:14 | We're going to create a new
layer inside of our Layers panel.
| | 00:20 | We'll call this photo clip. Hit Return.
| | 00:22 | Now, with our Marquee tool selected,
let's come in here and make a selection.
| | 00:26 | I want to select an area that I
want to have a photograph inside of.
| | 00:30 | So, I'm going to get that kind of close.
| | 00:33 | Once we have that in place, I'm going to hit
Option+Delete to fill with the foreground color.
| | 00:37 | I'm going to move this around.
| | 00:40 | Now, I'm going to zoom up here to make sure
that the shape that I created is exactly inside
| | 00:45 | of these tiles in the background.
| | 00:46 | I'm going to use my Move tool, spacebar for
the Hand tool, move around to make sure that
| | 00:51 | this matches up right in the corner.
| | 00:55 | Let's move down here. I see I want to
make this a little bit taller here.
| | 00:57 | I'm going to get my Marquee Selection tool,
draw the selection, hold Command+Option or
| | 01:03 | Ctrl+Option on Windows, then hit the down arrow.
| | 01:06 | Just add a few more pixels.
| | 01:09 | And I see I also want to have this
be a little more to the left here.
| | 01:12 | So, I'm going to marquee-
select this entire shape.
| | 01:15 | Just hold the Command key or the
Ctrl on Windows and just move this back.
| | 01:20 | So, now I have a shape that fits
perfectly within the background shape that I have.
| | 01:25 | Now with that in place, let's
come back out to the exercise files.
| | 01:28 | Let's open up ferry_building.png, grab the
layer, drag this into our composition, come
| | 01:35 | back and close the original file.
| | 01:36 | Now, I'll get my Move tool.
| | 01:39 | I'll move the photograph so it's
right on top of the photo clip layer.
| | 01:43 | I'm going to hold the Option key, click
between the layers, and clip in the photograph inside
| | 01:47 | of the photo clip layer.
| | 01:49 | I'm going to rename that layer Ferry Building.
| | 01:51 | Now, with the Move tool, I can move this around,
or use my arrow keys and get the exact position
| | 01:57 | of that photograph inside of that shape.
| | 01:59 | Now, the next thing I want to do is share some of
those effects that we assigned to the text layer.
| | 02:04 | So, let's come over here to the Layers panel.
| | 02:05 | I'm going to hold the Option key, or Alt in Windows,
click on Stroke, and I'm going to click and drag.
| | 02:12 | Notice I get a double icon, just like we
would see in tools like InDesign and Illustrator.
| | 02:17 | And this indicates we're going to
drag a copy of the Stroke settings.
| | 02:19 | And let's drag this and drop it
on top of the photo clip layer.
| | 02:23 | Once I let go, the same Stroke settings
are going to be applied to this shape.
| | 02:28 | Now, the only difference I want to make here is I want
the stroke to be on the inside instead of on the outside.
| | 02:33 | So, let's come down here, double-click the Stroke
effect on the photo clip layer, change Outside to Inside.
| | 02:39 | That will keep the nice
crisp shape. Let's click OK.
| | 02:43 | I also would like to share the Inner Shadow.
| | 02:46 | So, let's come over here to Inner Shadow,
hold the Option or Alt key, click and drag
| | 02:50 | a copy down to the photo clip layer.
| | 02:53 | Now, we can see the effect being
applied on top of the Ferry Building photo.
| | 02:57 | Again, even though the Photo Clip layer is
underneath, the effect is being applied after the clipping
| | 03:02 | of the Ferry Building.
| | 03:04 | Now that we've clipped the photograph into
a basic shape, next, we'll take a look at
| | 03:07 | how we can use clipping masks in
conjunction with layer adjustments.
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| Clipping layer adjustments into a layer| 00:00 | Now, we're going to create one more
clipping mask on the right side of our canvas.
| | 00:03 | Let's come down and
select the Highlights folder.
| | 00:06 | Let's create a new layer.
| | 00:10 | Let's call this Mosaic Clip.
| | 00:14 | Let's come up to our Marquee tool.
| | 00:15 | Let's click and hold.
| | 00:16 | Come over here and select
the Elliptical Marquee tool.
| | 00:19 | Come over on the right-hand side.
| | 00:21 | I'm going to hold the Option key or the Alt on
Windows, and then the Shift key and click and drag
| | 00:26 | to conform this to a circle
that spans out from the center.
| | 00:31 | Let go. Let's move this into place. Option+Delete to
fill with the foreground color or Alt+Delete in Windows.
| | 00:38 | Next, I will hit Command or
Ctrl D to deselect the circle.
| | 00:42 | Let's come back to the exercise files.
| | 00:43 | Let's open up mosaic.jpg.
| | 00:44 | Let's grab the layer,
drag it into our composition.
| | 00:52 | Let's go back and close the original file.
| | 00:55 | I'm going to rename this
Mosaic. Switch to the Move tool.
| | 01:03 | Move this so that the fish is
somewhat over top of the circle.
| | 01:07 | I'm going to use the keyboard shortcut Command+Option+G or
Ctrl+Option+G to clip that into the Mosaic Clip layer.
| | 01:13 | Once that's in place,
let's come over to the Layers panel.
| | 01:16 | Let's add an adjustment layer.
| | 01:18 | Let's first come up and select Levels.
| | 01:21 | Now, inside of the Levels Properties panel
here, let's come in and make some changes.
| | 01:26 | For the first number, let's come
in and add 23. Let's hit a Tab.
| | 01:29 | We'll put 1.9 for the middle
area and 210 for the light area.
| | 01:35 | Now, notice as I make these changes, we're
seeing the changes across the entire canvas.
| | 01:41 | Let's close the Properties.
| | 01:43 | Let's come over here to the adjustment layer.
| | 01:44 | I can hold the Option key, and notice we can
create a clipping mask of the adjustment layer as well.
| | 01:50 | So, I'll click on this.
| | 01:52 | Now, when I turn this on and off, notice it
only affects the Mosaic layer within the Mosaic
| | 01:57 | clip, which both of those
different layers are being clipped into.
| | 02:00 | So, this gives us a way to add layer adjustments only
to specific elements inside of our Photoshop canvas.
| | 02:05 | Now, let's add one more layer adjustment.
| | 02:08 | Let's come up and choose Hue/Saturation.
| | 02:13 | Let's come into the Saturation area here and
let's just really saturate those tiles on the fish.
| | 02:18 | Bring that up to about 45
or 46. Let's close that.
| | 02:21 | Again, we see it affecting the entire canvas.
Command+Option+G or Ctrl+Option+G to conform
| | 02:27 | that to happen just inside
of the Mosaic clip layer.
| | 02:30 | So now that we have both the photograph and
layer adjustments clipped inside of a shape,
| | 02:33 | in the next movie we're going to take a look at
an alternate technique for creating a silhouette.
| | 02:37 | using the Eraser and Paintbrush tools
in conjunction with our clipping layer.
| | 02:41 |
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| Painting and erasing a custom clipping shape| 00:00 | Now, we're going to create a custom shape around
the fish mosaic that's clipped into the circle.
| | 00:04 | We're going to use clipping masks and
paintbrushes and the Eraser tool to create a custom
| | 00:08 | silhouette shape instead of using a layer mask.
| | 00:11 | So, let's come down and
select the Mosaic clip layer.
| | 00:15 | On the Tool Panel, let's come
over and select the Paintbrush tool.
| | 00:18 | You want to make sure you have a
brush that doesn't have a very soft edge.
| | 00:22 | Set the Hardness to 100.
| | 00:25 | Let's come over here onto our canvas.
| | 00:26 | I am going to zoom up here, move this over.
| | 00:30 | So now what we're doing is with the
Paintbrush tool selected, we want to click and drag
| | 00:34 | and just start painting a shape.
| | 00:36 | The effect that we have here is
we're actually painting the photograph.
| | 00:40 | But again, the photograph is
clipped inside of the Mosaic clip Layer,
| | 00:43 | and so what we're actually doing
is changing the Mosaic clip shape.
| | 00:47 | I can use my right and left bracket keys to
increase and decrease the size of the brush.
| | 00:53 | When I paint around the fish, I want to make
sure we have at least two tiles deep all the
| | 00:58 | way around the fish.
| | 00:59 | So, I'll paint these in place here.
| | 01:03 | And now that I have enough of the tiles around the
fish, let's come over and select our Eraser tool.
| | 01:08 | And now with the Eraser tool selected,
let's come up and make sure we have a hard brush
| | 01:11 | selected for this as well.
| | 01:12 | Now, we're going to come in here and
erase part of the background shape.
| | 01:17 | So, I'm going to increase
my brush size a little bit.
| | 01:21 | So now with the Eraser tool, I'm going to come in
here and just erase the artwork on the Mosaic clip.
| | 01:25 | I'm going to erase it so that it matches up
with two rows of tiles around the entire fish.
| | 01:30 | So, as I go around here, I'm also going to
leave a few stray tiles in here just for effect.
| | 01:34 | So, I'm going to speed up the video here so
you don't have to watch me do all of this.
| | 01:38 | But again, you can create custom shapes by
using the paintbrush and the Eraser tool
| | 01:42 | and use this as an alternative to standard
silhouetting techniques where you might use
| | 01:46 | the Pen tool or use layer masks.
| | 01:50 | In addition, any technique that you
can use inside of here is going to work.
| | 01:53 | So, any kind of feathered brushes or any
other techniques you have for creating custom
| | 01:58 | shapes and artwork on your canvas can be
used in conjunction with a clipping mask.
| | 02:03 | So now that I have the silhouette the way I want it,
let's come over here and share some other effects.
| | 02:08 | Let's come up to the Photo Clip Layer.
| | 02:10 | Let's grab the Stroke effect,
hold the Option or Alt key.
| | 02:15 | Let's drag this down on the Mosaic clip.
Let's add in the stroke.
| | 02:17 | Now, in some cases, when you add the Stroke
effect, you might see some stray areas.
| | 02:22 | You can go back and erase some of those pieces.
| | 02:25 | Let's double-click the Stroke effect.
| | 02:28 | Let's set this down to 1. Let's click OK.
| | 02:32 | Let's also share the drop
shadow from the text layer.
| | 02:35 | So, let's come up here, hold the Option or
Alt key, grab drop shadow, and drag and drop
| | 02:39 | this on here as well.
| | 02:41 | So now we can zoom out.
| | 02:44 | So now, here we've used a clipping mask in
conjunction with the paintbrush and Eraser
| | 02:48 | tool to create a custom
silhouette of that individual shape.
| | 02:51 | We've also clipped in adjustment layers so
that we're only adjusting the pixels that
| | 02:56 | are part of the mosaic tile graphic, so that those
layer adjustments don't affect everything on the canvas.
| | 03:02 | So now that we have our composition complete,
next we'll take a look at a few other techniques
| | 03:05 | you might want to combine
along with clipping masks.
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| Combining clipping masks and layer masks| 00:00 | Now, while some of the effects of this
composition can be achieved using layer masks, one thing
| | 00:04 | we can do is we can combine clipping groups
and layer masks to get even more nondestructive
| | 00:10 | photo effects for our composition.
| | 00:12 | So, to demonstrate this, let's come over
to the Ferry Building's photo clip layer.
| | 00:16 | Let's turn off all of the effects.
| | 00:18 | I'm going to zoom up here, and I'm going to
select the photo clip layer and come down
| | 00:24 | and apply a layer mask.
| | 00:26 | So now what I can do here is I'm going to
select the G key, which is going to give me
| | 00:29 | the Gradient tool, make sure that I have
black and white as the colors on my foreground.
| | 00:35 | I'll select this to black on the top.
| | 00:37 | Come in here and just click and
drag and add a gradient mask.
| | 00:43 | So now, what we have here is the layer mask
is masking the photo clip shape and the photo
| | 00:48 | clip shape is controlling the shape of the Ferry
Building photograph above it, which is being clipped in.
| | 00:53 | So, this gives us two ways to control the
transparency of the Ferry Building graphic.
| | 00:58 | So, if I come over here and select the Move tool
and move this around, not only can I keep
| | 01:03 | the cropping in the upper-right and left
corners and on the sides, but I can also drag
| | 01:08 | the photograph down to decide where I want
the layer mask, which, again, is being assigned
| | 01:13 | to the photo clip layer,
to affect my photography.
| | 01:16 | Now, instead of a gradient mask, we can also
use the layer mask to create photo edge effects.
| | 01:24 | So, I'm going to come over
here, select the layer mask.
| | 01:28 | I'm going to hit Command+Delete to fill that
with white so that we don't have any layer
| | 01:31 | mask affecting the photo clip layer.
| | 01:35 | Let's come over here to the Paintbrush tool.
| | 01:37 | Make sure black is the foreground color.
| | 01:39 | Let's come up to our brushes.
| | 01:41 | Let's select an interesting brush, come down
and choose one of the spatter brushes here.
| | 01:45 | I'll select this one: Spatter 27 pixels.
| | 01:47 | Now, with that brush selected,
I'm going to come over to the canvas.
| | 01:51 | Now again, I'm on the layer mask.
| | 01:53 | So, let's come up here, let's
click outside of the clipping area.
| | 01:56 | I am going to move my cursor down, hold the
Shift key, click again, and then Photoshop
| | 02:02 | will create a straight line
out of that spatter brush.
| | 02:05 | This will give me a really even edge effect.
Or you can come in here and just simply
| | 02:10 | paint freehand to create
something a little more amorphic.
| | 02:16 | So now what we're doing here is we have that layer
mask over here which is affecting the clipping shape,
| | 02:20 | and again, we have the Ferry
Building clipped into here.
| | 02:23 | So, we can move this around, and the effect
of that edge that we hand painted is being
| | 02:28 | applied to the Ferry Building because it's
clipped into the main shape that is being
| | 02:32 | affected by the layer mask.
| | 02:35 | So, as you can see, we can get some really
interesting and nice effects using clipping
| | 02:40 | masks, and all of the photography and artwork
that we're clipping in remain untouched or unharmed.
| | 02:46 | So, everything that we're
doing here is nondestructive.
| | 02:49 | And this gives you the ability to switch
out the photography or change the composition,
| | 02:53 | so as you need to make design changes for
your clients, this will give you a really
| | 02:56 | quick way to go in and make
adjustments to your compositions.
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