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Subject: Text filled with my picture using cs2

babuci opened this issue on Nov 28, 2007 · 10 posts

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babuci ( ) posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 7:35 PM · edited Mon, 10 February 2025 at 11:28 AM

Hello Everybody!

I got an idea ( I am sure many of us done this before so not my only idea) to fill a text with my picture. Exsample. Open a picture shows a fine sunset with a glory of the seting sun. I like to have a text says " sunset " but instead of one picked color I would like to use a picture to fill a text body. After that make a background black and only show a world ( sunset )
A last 2 days I am try to find it on the internet, no luck. I find one thou but that tuto using Adobe illustration what I don't have.
Please help me out if you have some link or a short run through method how to achive this effect.
Greatly thank any input and please be gentle I am very novice with cs2.

seeya Tunde

bikermouse ( ) posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 9:18 PM

lets see: off the top of my head I' d put the picture on one layer and the text(try black or white) on another and then I'd play with masking and transparency.

babuci ( ) posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 9:41 PM

BM....sound good, I will give it a go. I did tried something similar with an erase tool but was a trash at first sight...lol. If I hear ( read) masking I am running off, so difficult, but I will see what can I do.
thanks for the respond!

seeya Tunde

amul ( ) posted Thu, 29 November 2007 at 5:12 AM

Create the text layer with "sunset" in it. Place this layer on the bottom of your stack.
Create a black fill layer above the text, but below your image of your sunset.
Apple-click on the text layer in the layers palette. (Sorry, somebody will have to translate that to PC if you're not on a Mac). This will select the text.
Select the sunset-image layer in the layers palatte.
Select the "add mask" button on the bottom of the layers menu, making sure that the text is still selected.

Done!

The natural next step for you to consider is to do the same thing with entire sentences, poems, etc. Word placement relative to the parts of the image you are revealing. Composite/montage images consisting of many images used to make many words. Fonts, of course, have a strong effect.

I used to get a kick out of incongruent image/word relationships. "Alice loves me." Only, the word "love" is filled with chains. Something like that. It became a game for me to see how to make the most subtle shift of meaning that I could.

They had chained him down to things that are, and had then explained the workings of those things till mystery had gone out of the world....And when he had failed to find [wonder and mystery] in things whose laws are known and measurable, they told him he lacked imagination, and was immature because he preferred dream-illusions to the illusions of our physical creation.
-- HP Lovecraft, The Silver Key

dreamer101 ( ) posted Thu, 29 November 2007 at 2:34 PM

There are lots of ways to achieve the same thing. You can Edit > Copy picture of your sunset then in a new document use the Horizontal Type Mask Tool and type SUNSET. Edit > Paste Into. It will create a Layer Mask. You can drag around image of sunset until it's the way you want it.