Novice needs help with effect – please help

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Neil Hindry
Nov 11, 2004
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I wonder if you can help me.
I am trying to create the following effect.

I want to have a word and instead of filling the letters with a colour I want to fill it with a picture. So when I look at each individual letter I see a part of the picture..

I used the Horizontal type mask tool, then I used paste into to put the picture into the words.
However, I don’t seem to be able to make the letters right, they always seem rather narrow. Obviously if the letter is too thin you won’t be able to tell what the picture is.

Is there anyway I can make the letters wider so that it will fit more of the picture in it, thus enabling people to see what it is easier?

I hope you understand what I am trying to do and I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!
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Reg
Nov 11, 2004
Neil Hindry wrote:

I wonder if you can help me.
I am trying to create the following effect.

I want to have a word and instead of filling the letters with a colour I want to fill it with a picture. So when I look at each individual letter I see a part of the picture..

I used the Horizontal type mask tool, then I used paste into to put the picture into the words.
However, I don’t seem to be able to make the letters right, they always seem rather narrow. Obviously if the letter is too thin you won’t be able to tell what the picture is.

Is there anyway I can make the letters wider so that it will fit more of the picture in it, thus enabling people to see what it is easier?

What you want is called a clipping group. Check it out in the PS help files. It’s much more flexible than using the type mask tool.

As for the text, you should probably use a thicker font. You could also rasterize the text and then stretch it with edit > transform > scale.

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Clive Croucher
Nov 11, 2004
Have a look at www.myjanee.com where she has, amongst her numerous tutorials, one doing exactly what you want. Good luck with it.

Clive

"Neil Hindry" wrote in message
I wonder if you can help me.
I am trying to create the following effect.

I want to have a word and instead of filling the letters with a colour I want to fill it with a picture. So when I look at each individual letter I see a part of the picture..

I used the Horizontal type mask tool, then I used paste into to put the picture into the words.
However, I don’t seem to be able to make the letters right, they always seem rather narrow. Obviously if the letter is too thin you won’t be able to tell what the picture is.

Is there anyway I can make the letters wider so that it will fit more of the picture in it, thus enabling people to see what it is easier?
I hope you understand what I am trying to do and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!
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edjh
Nov 11, 2004
Neil Hindry wrote:
I wonder if you can help me.
I am trying to create the following effect.

I want to have a word and instead of filling the letters with a colour I want to fill it with a picture. So when I look at each individual letter I see a part of the picture..

I used the Horizontal type mask tool, then I used paste into to put the picture into the words.
However, I don’t seem to be able to make the letters right, they always seem rather narrow. Obviously if the letter is too thin you won’t be able to tell what the picture is.

Is there anyway I can make the letters wider so that it will fit more of the picture in it, thus enabling people to see what it is easier?
I hope you understand what I am trying to do and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!
Use the regular type tool so the type is editable.

Place your picture on a layer above the type. Alt-click on the line between the layers in the Layers Palette to Group the layers. That should do it.

If the letters are too thin use a bold font or choose Faux Bold from the Character Palette. You can also play with letter width and spacing form that palette but the bottom line is that some fonts will give you good results and some won’t, so choose accordingly.

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Kingdom
Nov 11, 2004
"Neil Hindry" wrote in
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I wonder if you can help me.
I am trying to create the following effect.

I want to have a word and instead of filling the letters with a colour I want to fill it with a picture. So when I look at each individual letter I see a part of the picture..

I used the Horizontal type mask tool, then I used paste into to put the picture into the words.
However, I don’t seem to be able to make the letters right, they always seem rather narrow. Obviously if the letter is too thin you won’t be able to tell what the picture is.

Is there anyway I can make the letters wider so that it will fit more of the picture in it, thus enabling people to see what it is easier?
I hope you understand what I am trying to do and I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

The trick here is to choose the right font, you need a really big chunky block font to start with, normal fonts are just to thin. It works well with fonts like ESP BOLD, GILLSANS ULTRABOLD, BLOCK BE HEAVY, ANT OLIVE ND and there will be many more, try searching the font sites.

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Corey
Nov 12, 2004
Select the picture you want to be inside the text by pressing CTRL+A or go to Edit>Select All. Then click on the type layer in which you want the image to appear and use the magic wand tool to select all the text. Then go to Edit>Paste Into (SHFT+CTRL+V). This will create a layer mask placing the image inside the text. You can move the image around to wherever looks best and then link the layer mask to the image in the same layer to be able to move them together.

Now this mask is not a "vector mask’ but the method is easy. If you want a vector mask, convert the text to a shape, click on the mask icon to create a vector mask. The select the image layer and drag the vector mask to the mask icon.

Peadge 🙂

"Neil Hindry" wrote in message
I wonder if you can help me.
I am trying to create the following effect.

I want to have a word and instead of filling the letters with a colour I want to fill it with a picture. So when I look at each individual letter I see a part of the picture..

I used the Horizontal type mask tool, then I used paste into to put the picture into the words.
However, I don’t seem to be able to make the letters right, they always
seem
rather narrow. Obviously if the letter is too thin you won’t be able to tell what the picture is.

Is there anyway I can make the letters wider so that it will fit more of
the
picture in it, thus enabling people to see what it is easier?
I hope you understand what I am trying to do and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

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