an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Happy Tuesday.
After posting my business cards yesterday I got a question about how I made the text look like the photo was visible underneath it. I filmed a quick (less than 5 1/2 minute) video to show how PSE can be used to get the look. As mentioned in the video, I have no formal photoshop training so everything I do is quite possibly the least proper method. But hey – it's effective! Watch below to see how I created the two graphics above.
this is the correct way to do a clipping mask – great job!
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I strongly guess that I do so many things the least proper way…but I’m okay with that, too, because it works for me. Such a fun stop for me, thanks for a good read always!
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i just got pse and am having the hardest time finding tutorials for the types of things i want to do. and this was one of them! thanks so much!
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Another great tool if you just want to do a text mask is the Type Mask Tool. You can get it by right clicking on the Text Tool button (I run PSE 10, not sure if it’s in PSE 9 or earlier versions?). Great tutorial!! The clipping mask function was totally new to me.
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Love the new banner Elise.
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Thank you! This is super helpful 🙂
Do you have another source you use to figure out photoshop or do you learn by trying? I have PSE9 but haven’t got much beyond the basics yet…
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Juat had an epiphany THIS weekend with one of Cathy Zielske’s tutorials – managed to do FOUR Project Life pages in PSE8 in an hour! I guess I had a mental block against the layers idea…
I can’t wait to go home tonight and try this!! It almost makes sense in my head, now that I’m “getting it!” Thanks for the tutorial!
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Happy to hear it it! Most of what I know I have picked up from playing around, but I have also got a lot of great information from the digital videos Cathy shares on her blog : http://cathyzielske.typepad.com/my_weblog/
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Ooh! I can’t wait to watch when I get home this evening! I’m beginning a pinboard just for this type of thing. 🙂
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Thanks for the tutorial! I love when I have one of those “oh-so-that’s-how-you-do-it!-Cool!” moments.
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thank you so very much. i can’t wait to give this a try.
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Great tutorial, Elise! As usual I have been enjoying all your posts, just not always commenting. I love how your new home has come together. I think you’re an inspiration in how you keep your home, business & personal goals moving forward. More power to you!
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ohhhhhhhhhhh! i’ve been wondering about that! thanks. 🙂
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does anyone know which command it is on a pc? i have everything set up, text and image layers but i’m not sure how to “push” the image through the text.
♥ the video – totally inspired me to try this out!
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on a PC you can always right click the photo and hit “create clipping mark.” Does the same thing 🙂
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right click the image and hit “create clipping mark.” it’ll do the same thing.
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love that, elise! i received PSE from my husband for Christmas and have been playing around with it only for a week or so. (very very cool) thanks so much for your tips & tricks! xoxo
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I have always wanted to know how to do this!! Thank you!
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I LOVE your Photoshop tutorials! I just started using CS4 and your videos are so helpful. Thank you!
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thanks again! here is my first success (just something silly to practice). really appreciate the video though!) http://unkindnessofraisins.wordpress.com/
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Tank you very much for this video! I tried it myself using a PC and found out how it worked there. Thanks!
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And that is what I played with: http://sp-photography.blogspot.com/2012/01/fotoalbum-2010-in-den-letzten-zugen.html
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thanks; i learned something new! i’ve used clipping masks for frames but never with text and photos…(duh) 😉 no formal training here whatsoever but another quickie is to just right click and duplicate the photo layer so you don’t have to worry about lining up the photos….. cool stuff……i also need to upgrade my ancient version of PSE! LOL
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The option key on the Mac is the ALT key on a PC.
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This is a really easy to follow tutorial, it creates a great visual effect. thanks very much Elise! xo
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I was just trying to figure this out a couple days ago and came across your tutorial last night via one of your latest posts. Enter happy girl! Thank you so much. And the holding the shift key while making a perfect circle – brilliant! : )
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enJOY it 
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