From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Textures
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Add a texture with a clipping mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Textures
Add a texture with a clipping mask
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how we can use a clipping mask to put texture inside a shape. In the case of this example, how we can put the clouds image inside the shape of the text. Now, by the way, I have converted the text to a shape land, just so that we don't run into any missing font issues. Let's switch to the starting state, and I have my text layout, and I have my clouds layout. I need to make sure that my clouds layout is above the text layout. That's the first thing. I select the clouds layer, and then from the layers panel menu, I choose Create Clipping Mask. I can also use the keyboard shortcut, which is command option G, or CTRL+Alt+G, and you can see then, the above layer is clicked to the layer below. Now, of course, I will also need to add in a solid color fill layer beneath this, so that we don't see the transparency. So, I'll come to my adjustment layers, and choose solid color, and I'm going to go with black, and I just need to make sure that…
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Blend textures3m 32s
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Create vintage photo effects2m 57s
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Create grunge photo effects4m 13s
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Add texture with Paper Textures Pro2m 39s
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Add texture with a layer mask3m 40s
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Add a texture with a clipping mask1m 51s
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Textures and advanced clipping masks5m 50s
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Add texture with pattern overlays5m 28s
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