Hi, I am having some difficulty making a text mask. So far what I tried was opening the picture and then creating a layer with a mask and trying to have the text as that mask. Now idk if you can make a mask from the background layer or not...I am not that familiar with photoshop. If anyone can give me a step by step instruction on how to make a text mask from a image let me know .

hi there, hows this...I use photoshop 7, but this works from 5.5 upwards.

First, duplicate your background image/layer (click the little fly out at the top right hand side of the layers pallette, or right click the layer named background and choose duplicate layer) that protects your original.

2. Click the text tool and hold until you get the flyout showing the "dotted T". Thats the text mask tool.

3. Click roughly where you want to write the text, (once you start to type you can only move the "outline" with a selection tool, not the text tools, that tries to cut the information out)

4. You'll get a pink mask across the image, thats ok, it will disappear one you click the move tool for example.

5. You can either then copy and paste the info from the picture below, (I presume thats what you want) or fill it (edit/fill) or throw a gradient through it.

Any questions, feel free to ask!

Im a photoshop nerd!

heres what I do with it, if you are interested :: www.palegallery.net

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