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Type and transparency

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Type and transparency

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- [Instructor] Let's see how we can combine transparent type with this image of a sunrise in Venice. I'll choose my type tool, click to make an insertion point. Now I'm just going to type my word. I'm using a very condensed typeface. I think that's important here because we want to fill as much vertical space as possible. I'm going to position the type and then press command or control + T to put a transformation rectangle around the type, then hold the shift key, and drag from the top right. Then I can position this right about there. Press return to commit to that. If all I want to do is add transparency to the type, that's very simple. I'm in my move tool so I can just press six for 60 and we now see some of the image coming through the letter shapes. But I'd like to take this a step further and have the foreground cover the type so that we see the type just in the background. This is going to require me to make a sandwich of my type. I'll need to make a selection of the image…

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