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Images made with Photoshop contain different individual layers which in turn contain different texts, designs, effects and colors. These layers are combined to make your final image in Photoshop. These different layers when combined give you a final PSD file.
While working on Photoshop, you may come along a scenario under which you are adding and removing layers and effect on an image, but then you need to remove a certain section of a layer to make the most suited version of the image.
In Photoshop you can change visibility of different layers. They can be made visible and invisible on your image, and these layers can further be rasterized to remove some part of the corresponding objects that the layers have.
If you wish to remove some part of the image, you may follow the below described procedure to do so:
- ■Initialize the Photoshop program from the Start menu.
■On the interface that opens up, select File from the menu bar.
■On the drop-down list that appears, click on Open.
■On the Open window, locate and open your target image.
■Back on the interface, from the toolbar box in the right pane, select the Layers tab.
■In the toolbox, right-click on the layer and select RasterizeLayer from the available options.
■On the interface, select any selection tool from the toolbar section, Lasso Tool in this demonstration, and select a part of the image.
■On the selected part of the image, hit the Delete key.
■Select File from the menu bar, and hit Save from the drop-down list to save the
changes.
The selected part of the image will be removed from the image, and you will get the desired image.
For selection of a specific part of an image, you can use any of the selecting tool available in the toolbar. If you wish to completely hide a layer from the image, just click the ‘eye’ symbol in the layer toolbar which will make the layer invisible on your image. (The layer will not be deleted.).
I'd like to cut through a white layer with text to reveal a pic underneath, in effect filling the text with the pic but still be able to preserve full text editing i.e. not rasterise?
So far I have two pics, one as the background layer and one as a clipping mask for the text.
Can anyone help? Sorry if this has already been answered I'n not sure what this technique is called so wasn't sure what to search for.
Sample:
1 Answer
Place the text layer below the image you want to fill the text with.
Hold down the Option/Alt key and click between the photo and text layer in the Layers Panel. You'll see a little down arrow cursor when you should click.
This will treat the text as a clipping group and only show the photo where the text is. Text remains live so you can edit it if needed.
To address comment below..
- Create the gradient background layer, then solid color layer, and atext layer.
- highlight the text and solid color layer in the Layer Panel and group them
- Highlight the group you just created and from the Layer Panel menu choose Blending Options
In the Blending Options Dialog there are two sliders at the bottom for 'Blend if'. For the top slider, click and drag the arrow on the right towards the left until the white text disappears.
And there you have it. If you need to edit the text, go ahead. Expand the group and edit the text. As long as it remains white it will be subtracted from the layer below the group.
This technique is dependent upon the color of the layer pixels. In some cases you may need to move the Blend If sliders differently to achieve the appearance you want.
I chose to group the text and solid color so that the group would be altered by the content below it. You could use the Blend If sliders on only the text layer if desired. Results and necessary slider settings may be different in that case.
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Here's how to create a 3D cutout text effect with Photoshop Elements. This effect makes text appear as though it is punched out of a surface. In this tutorial, you will work with layers, the horizontal type selection tool, and layer style effects.
Start with a New document using the Web preset. New > Blank File > Web minimum.
Note
This tutorial also works the current version of Photoshop Elements -- Photoshop Elements 15
Create a New Solid Fill Layer
Create a new layer solid color fill layer from the adjustment layer button on the layers palette.
Choose white for the new layer color.
Make a Type Selection
Select the Horizontal Type Mask tool by clicking the Text tool and then clicking the type mask tool in the toolbox, which reveals additional type tools.
Click inside the document and type some text. The text will show as white on a pink background because this is really a type selection we are creating and the masked area is shown with a red overlay.
Highlight over the text to select it, then choose a bold font and a large font size (around 150 pixels).
Cut Out Letters In Photoshop
When you are happy with the type selection, click the green checkmark to apply it. The red overlay will become a 'marching ants' marquee.
Delete the Type Selection
Press delete on the keyboard to 'punch out' the text selection from the top layer, then Deselect or use the keyboard command Ctrl + D.
Apply a Drop Shadow
Go to the Effects palette (Window > Effects if it is not showing) and click the second icon for layer styles, then set the menu to show drop shadows.
Double click on the drop shadow style low to apply it.
If you can't find the drop shadow style, try Layer > Layer Style > Style Settings and select Drop Shadow. When the dialog box opens set a lighting Angle as well as Size, Distance and Opacity for the Drop Shadow. When finished click OK.
The objective of a Drop Shadow is to show elevation. In this case, the shadow will be used to give the text an Embossed effect. In either case, subtly should be your goal. Just keep in mind the higher the object casting the shadow is above a surface the larger and fainter (opacity) it is on the edges.
This technique is remarkably similar to creating a 'cast shadow' in Photoshop.
Customize the Effect Style
You can stop here or you can double-click on the FX icon on the layers palette to customize the drop shadow appearance. You may want to change the lighting angle, or size, distance and opacity of the shadow.
Change the Background Color
If desired, fill the background with another color by clicking it in the layers palette and going to Edit > Fill or using the paint bucket tool.
by Dong Tang
In this exercise we will give your text a more interesting look with a cut-out effect. This exercise works with Photoshop 7 and all later versions. We will use the Type Tool, Inner Shadow Layer Style, Filters, Gaussian Blur, and we will also learn how to change the Brightness/Contrast of an image.
Step 1
Open Photoshop and before you start a new file set the background colour to #8A8777, make the foreground colour white (#FFFFFF).
Now open a new file (Ctrl + N or File>New) with a size of 400 x 200 pixels and set the background contents to background colour (see image below).
Step 2
Use Layer>New>Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N to open a new layer, rename it to Text layer. Insert #8a8776 as foreground colour. To insert colour code see red circle in image below!
Hide your background layer by clicking on the eye icon in the Layer’s Panel/ Screen. (See image below)
Choose the Type Tool in the Tool’s Palette to type the text ‘Button’ in Berlin Sans FB, bold at 72pt (see pictures below).
Step 3
Go to Layer>Rasterize>Type, (see image below) and then go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast (see image below) to change the Brightness of the text to -30 (see image below).
To make the background layer visible again click on the eye icon in the Layer Screen next to the layer name (as in image above).
Step 4
Use Layer>Style>Inner Shadow to add some shadow inside our text.
Step 5
First hold Ctrl and click on the text layer to select the shape of text. Then open a new layer with Layer>New>Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N, switch the foreground colour to white and fill the selection with forground colour using Edit>Fill.
Step 6
Press Ctrl+D to deselect the text shape. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set radius to 3 pixels.
Click move tool on tool palette, and move the blured image to right and under the original text for 2-3 pixels.
Change the new layer’s opacity to 40% and fill to 30% in the layer palette.
Step 7
Now we add some noise on our image to make it look more real. Select the background layer and go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise, set amount to 3% and check uniform box and monochromatic box. Choose the text layer and apply the same effect on it.
Now we get our text with a wonderful cut-out effect.
This is the logo I have in mind:
I have been using white rectangles as blocs to hide the words like this: Situs download film gratis subtitle indonesia download.
However, when I merge the layers of text and white rectangles together, I am seeing something like this when I turn my background transparent:
It's very time consuming and laborous to manually delete those white spots in the final layer. If I change the color of the white rectangles to transparent then I am not seeing any 'cutting' of the letters because it's transparent!!
Is there a better way to do this?
2 Answers
Type out your text.
Make sure the type layer is selected and add a layer mask. You can find this in the layers panel (Window -> Layers if you don't see it). Select the square icon with the circle cutout in the middle.
Now use whatever tool you want to make a selection for the parts you want to hide.
I suggest using the pen tool (P) however you can use whichever selection tool you're used to using.
(If using the pen tool) Right click on the selection -> Make selection. Press OK on the next screen.
Now fill the selection with black using the brush tool (B) or fill tool (G).
Result
use a mask, you'd still have to do it manually, just means you can alter it afterwards of you wont like it, plus nothing white to hide