Well, text effects are one thing that you would want to learn so that you can create awesome looking texts on Photoshop for your loved ones! Well, and specially this text effect because this is a text effect which will help you make your text look as if it is made of a certain picture. Well, in this example, I will be using a Taylor Swift image with the text "Lorem Ipsum", so that you can easily do that, if you want!
Well, before I go on with this tutorial, I would like you to check out the amazing text effect that I posted before this text effect! Well, read it here. Cool Shattered Style Text : Photoshop
Okay, before we begin, I want you to have a look at the output of this tutorial. There can be various outputs to the same, depending upon what image you actually choose and what text you type on it!
Okay, let's begin with the tutorial. It is going to be a simple one, that you can easily do! To begin with, you must have a picture of what you want to make into a text. I am going to use this image of Taylor Swift.
- Open the picture you want in Photoshop and duplicate the background layer. This can be done by dragging the Background layer to the new layer icon.
- Now, go to Layer Menu -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color. Give it any name and click OK. Then, choose a color that will work as the background for your final image. In my case, this was black.
- Now, add a new text layer and make the text box fit your full canvas size by drawing a box over it, with the type tool selected.
- Now, paste the text you want to appear on the image. In this example, I will be using the famous "Lorem Ipsum". Alternatively, you can type the text you want.
- After entering the text, choose the Move Tool(The top most-arrow in the toolbox).
- Now, re-order the layers so that they look similar to this image.
- Now, press Ctrl and click on the T icon in the layers area. This will select the text only and nothing else on the full image.
- Go to Select Menu -> Inverse. This will select everything on the image, except the text.
- Now, select the Background copy layer by clicking on it once in the layers area.
- Now, press delete on the keyboard. This will delete a everything that we do not need. Press Ctrl + D to deselect everything now.
- Next, just hide the text-layer by clicking on the 'eye' icon in the layers area next to the text layer.
- There you are, ready with your final output image! Hope you like this and enjoyed making the image, as much as I did, explaining it to you.
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13 comments:
Awesome tutorial buddy, I am gonna try this one out. :)
Nice and Simple :)
I kinda knew how this could be done... but just seeing these steps ... it feels even better and easier :D
Thanx :D
simple tut, with simple steps... thanks for the share...
There's an easier way to achieve this effect. Use a clipping mask!
Open up picture, create a new layer and paste text in. Unlock the picture which should be on your background layer. (Do this by clicking on the the background layer in your layers palette then rename it to whatever you want). Then, again in your layers palette, drag the text layer to underneath your picture layer. Now, with the text layer selected, hit the alt key and move your mouse in between your two layers until you see the symbol that looks like a little venn diagram. Click the mouse and you have created a clipping mask. If desired, you can add a new layer with a fill color of whatever you want and drag it below the other two layers in the layers palette.
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!
@Everyone - Thanks a lot for the feedback on the tutorial!
@Erica - Thanks for the other way to do the tutorial. Even I found your way easier :)
When I read the title I thought "oh, clipping mask".
Then, no clipping mask. Tsk tsk.. Destructive editing like this is a BIG nono
Why is that Rutger?
Well, 'destructive editing' as it is called is generally frowned upon since it doesn't allow you to tweak or fix after you've made adjustments (or, not easily anyway.)
Imagine you're using this technique in a piece, and hours into the document you notice you made a spelling error in your text. You would have to start all over again, perhaps losing hours of work.
To battle this, any advanced photoshopper should always try to work with editable layer, smart objects, adjustment layers etc. where possible, so that even three days into your work, you could still tweak something you made at the very beginning. It's the way to becoming a pro!
Yea, there I agree with you! And at that point, Masking is much much better!
Masking is great often, but for this effect I would go with a clipping mask. Not only would it automatically adjust were you to change the text, but it would leave your masks free for perhaps some fading
Yea, I agree there :)
You've done really awesome job! Great tutorial & and very easy to follow every step,thanks a lot for sharing this nice post :)
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