From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials
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Masking type - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials
Masking type
- [Instructor] Here's a technique for working with clipping masks and type. I have two pieces of type here, and that is what's going to make this a small challenge for us. So as we saw in a previous movie, if you want to clip an image to a piece of type, you drag the image above the piece of type in the layer stack, then hold down Option or Alt, and click on the line between the two layers. So I now have the image clipped to the word San Francisco, but I also want it clipped to California. If I move California down in my layer stack, that too becomes part of the clipping group, visually it has no effect. So how am I going to solve this? Well, let's unclip everything, and I'm going to select the two pieces of type and put them into a layer group, Command or Ctrl + G, and I will now clip the image not to an individual layer, but to the group. So hold down Option or Alt, and click on the line between the layer and the group, and we now have the effect that we're after. So just wanted to…
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