Filling Text with Background Image

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Stede_Gaehler
Dec 13, 2003
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Trying to fill my text layer with backgroud image and having difficulty. My old photoshop4 refernece material tells me to paste with lock transparecy ON, but in photoshopCS this isn’t working for me. ( Lock transparency is ghosted in my text layer ? )
Could anyone provide me the trick. Tia.
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Gene Trujillo
Dec 13, 2003
Place the image layer just above the text layer, then on the layer palette, alt/option click the line between the two layers to "group with next". Your text is now filled with the image, and you can move both around to your heart’s content.

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