How to clipping mask text in Photoshop Hello friends, how are you? Come and learn something new about how to clipping mask text in Photoshop. Very simple to text clipping masks with any image. Before starting the tutorial we can learn about clipping masks. So what is a clipping mask? I can explain the concept of clipping mask in Photoshop shortly. Clipping mask is a combination of two layers in a particular area where one image appears through another image or text. We will use a free image for a tutorial show. You can also download image free from pixabay: Following steps: 1. Open an image 2. Select tool 3. Select position 4. Write text 5. Change text style 6. Move text 7. Unlock background 8. Change layer position 9. Clipping mask 10. Trim 11. Save So let’s start our tutorial with an image and any text. We will use Photoshop version CC as usual. But you can practice by not only CC but also any other version too.
1. Open an image
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2. Select tool To write some text rst you need to select the horizontal type tool from Photoshop tool set. Look at left side tool set and select the horizontal type tool:
3. Select position
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Click the mouse pointer on the image. When you click mouse pointer any place on the image you will see the text line will appear with some example text and automatically a layer 1 created in layer panel:
4. Write text Now write some text as an example. We will use “HORSES” text for this image just for an example. End of text just enter for see the text in layer 1:
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5. Change text style Here you could change text’s font type, color, size for beauti cation as per you need. To set font all style notice top portion of Photoshop and see the changing option. For change select the “HORSES” don't like you select any sentence for copy paste from any article then change as per your demand:
6. Move text To move the horse’s text left or write and up or down you need to keep selection on text then drag the mouse cursor outside of text and move it to set your desire position and press ENTER from keyboard for ok:
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7. Unlock background Now click on the lock of the background layer to edit the background. If the background is lock condition then you cannot do anything on this layer. When you click on the lock it will converted as layer 0:
8. Change layer position
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Now change the “layer 0” position because you need to clipping mask the text. Take the “layer 0” top of the HORSES text. To do this drag the “layer 0” and move to just top of HORSES text:
9. Clipping mask Time to apply the nal round tool called clipping mask text in Photoshop. To give effect clipping mask, stay selection on “layer 0” then go to top drop down menu bar and click layer > create clipping mask:
Relevant Topic: Background Removal Service
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When click on create clipping mask the image will combined with HORSES text and it appeared look like the image is showing through the text and other background is transparent :
10. Trim
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You can cut out unnecessary parts of the text. In two ways you can remove the extra part of the image. One crop and another is trim. Here I will use trim because it is easier than crop. So to trim the image go to the top dropdown menu bar and click image > Trim. You will see the extra part will automatically remove:
11. Save At last you can save the image PNG format or if you want as your desired format like PSD, TIFF or JPEG etc. To save press CTRL (Command) +S after select PNG format:
Relevant Topic: Image Masking Service
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So the nal image look like:
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