Insert A Photo Inside A Text.docx

This tutorial will help us to understand how simple is to insert a photo inside a text using Adobe Photoshop CS6. We’re going to use a very few and very well-known commands of the program and I assure you that the result you’ll achieve is awesome. We can use our personal photos or images we have found surfing the Web. There are no limits and all we have to do is follow our fantasy. Let’s start our project choosing a photo we particularly love, we are fond on, or we would like to work on and think about the typeface we’re going to use for this. I choose a beautiful view of the Tower Bridge, the wonderful combined bascule and suspension bridge that spans the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name and has become an iconic symbol of this town. Obviously, feel free to work on also on a subject of your choosing. Let’s see how to go on.

1). Set up your text Open the photo that will be our base and click on “Text” in the tool palette on the left. At this point, select font, size, colour and text align in the options above. A block sans-serif font will often work best, but feel free to experiment. I ended up choosing Dock11 as my typeface because of its simplicity (available in the Sans category, you can download it here).

As for the colour, I chose one which would contrast strongly with a dark background, a left text align and then I set its size (note that size will be settled again at the following step). After this, type your message and compose it within your document. Since I choose a photo of London, the obvious text for me is name of the city. Put your text wherever you want. I preferred to move it at the bottom of the photo.

2). Size your text to the space Next, on the keyboard press Ctrl + T in order to select the space of the text and drag with the cursor the anchor points to stretch the text and then increase its size.

3). Create a clipping mask Now place the cursor on the Background layer, right click > Duplicate Layer. We’ll create a new level called Background copy. Drag the layer Background copy above the London text. (Note that after this step, our text “will temporarily disappear”).

After you create a clipping mask, the level with the name ‘Background Copy’ in the level panel will appear indented with a small arrow facing down, but the image will not change.

Select the textual level and with Ctrl pressed, click the New Layer button (the second last icon starting from the left) down in the level panel to create a new level which will have to be positioned under the textual level. Then, reset the both the foreground colour and the second colour pressing ‘D’. Use the foreground colour (black) to fill the level 1 we created before. If you prefer anything other than black as your background colour, feel free to change it. Finally click on the move tool and shift the image below until the result we want to achieve. Here is our background image in our text! You can consider to use a Bevel and Emboss layer effect to enhance the look of your new title and make the letters stand out.

Conclusions The effects we can apply to text are almostendless. You can enjoy yourself using a great variety of images to fill your message and tune the effect for your purposes.