From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Type as an image - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

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Type as an image

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- [Instructor] This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Taking a picture and putting it inside a letter shape. But if you choose the right picture, and you choose the right letter shape, it can be a really effective technique. Let's see how it's done. So here's my starting point. I got my ampersand on top of this picture of winter trees. First of all, I need to adjust the stacking order. The image needs to go on top of the type, and then we need to clip the image to the type. And I can do that by coming to the Layers panel menu and choosing Create Clipping Mask, or use the keyboard shortcut, Command+Option+G or Control+Alt+G, or the way I tend to prefer to do it, is by holding down the Option or Alt key, and just clicking on the horizontal line that separates those two layers. Now in addition, I might also just want to move the image around within the letter shapes. So I'll come to my move tool, and I could just adjust that so that it completely defines the shape of the letter.

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