michael wrote:
I’d like to be able to take text, rasterize it, and then fill it in with an image, or texture, etc. I found hypertyle that does it but I just don’t have the $50.
mb
don’t rely on those plugins. Photoshop will do all that you need and the best part is that you don’t have to rasterize your text. All that you have to do is:
Create your text. Make it White on black background. Select one of your channels and make a copy of it. It will look like white text on black background. Open your image (the image that you want to be seen in the text). Make sure that it is in the lower layer (not "background"). Go back to the new copied channel (alpha channel. Click the selection Icon under the Channels window to select the white part. Go back to the layers palette and highlight the image layer. Click the mask button in the layers pallette. Make sure that your original text layer is hidden and that will do it. You will even be able to go back, change the text, change the alpha mask, etc.
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