How To Change Background Using Blending Modes in Photoshop
How To Change Background Using Blending Modes in Photoshop
Open the photo that will be our base and click on “Text” in
the tool palette on the left.
At this point, select font, size, colour and text align in the
options above. A block sans-serif font will often work best,
but feel free to experiment. I ended up choosing Dock11 as
my typeface because of its simplicity (available in the Sans
category, you can download it here).
As for the colour, I chose one which would contrast
strongly with a dark background, a left text align and then
I set its size (note that size will be settled again at the
following step).
After this, type your message and compose it within your
document. Since I choose a photo of London, the obvious
text for me is name of the city. Put your text wherever you
want. I preferred to move it at the bottom of the photo.
2). Size your text to the space
Next, on the keyboard press Ctrl + T in order to select the
space of the text and drag with the cursor the anchor
points to stretch the text and then increase its size.
3). Create a clipping mask
Now place the cursor on the Background layer, right click
> Duplicate Layer. We’ll create a new level called
Background copy. Drag the layer Background copy above
the London text.
(Note that after this step, our text “will temporarily
disappear”).
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After you create a clipping mask, the level with the name
‘Background Copy’ in the level panel will appear indented
with a small arrow facing down, but the image will not
change.
Select the textual level and with Ctrl pressed, click the
New Layer button (the second last icon starting from the
left) down in the level panel to create a new level which
will have to be positioned under the textual level.
Then, reset the both the foreground colour and the second
colour pressing ‘D’. Use the foreground colour (black) to
fill the level 1 we created before. If you prefer anything
other than black as your background colour, feel free to
change it.
Finally click on the move tool and shift the image below
until the result we want to achieve.
Here is our background image in our text!
You can consider to use a Bevel and Emboss layer effect to
enhance the look of your new title and make the letters
stand out.
Conclusions
The effects we can apply to text are almostendless. You
can enjoy yourself using a great variety of images to fill
your message and tune the effect for your purposes.
Select the Pen Tool from your toolbar and change the
mode to “Clear”. Make sure the top layer (not the gold
texture) is selected in your Layers Panel. Then use your
tablet to write something fun! If your handwriting looks
shaky, try zooming in a bunch (300-400%) and then
writing. It’s also fun to experiment with different brush
sizes and styles.
If you don’t have a tablet, you can just use plain text! For
this, you will want to set up your layers the same exact
way we did above. Then select the Horizontal Type Mask
Tool. This will automatically turn your text into a
selection.
After you’ve got your type mask (seen below), select the
Magic Eraser Tool and uncheck “Contiguous”. Then click
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the Magic Eraser over the selection, and the text should
disappear. If you’re using an image as your background,
you may need to erase the selection using the normal
Eraser Tool or the Pen Tool (under “clear” mode).
To add gold leaf text in the form of a font, you can also
follow this tutorial I wrote on combining photos and text.
Here’s an example of how fun it is to add gold handwriting
and doodles to a photograph. You can use the method I
first described, just make sure the layers are all stacked
correctly.