This site has some good tutorials for that, WWW.MyJanee.com. Look under her tutorial index and see the text tutorials. Also try a Google search, might be lots more out there. Good Luck
here’s a thread describing how to do it from last week. a forum search can work wonders!
LenHewitt "Picture in text" 5/6/04 8:46am </cgi-bin/webx?14/0>
I’m sorry I totally forgot to mention that the "text" image I’m using isn’t really text at all. It’s our logo that’s saved as a transparent eps file. And since there isn’t a "type" layer I’m kinda stuck.
Any ideas?
Suzanne,
Not sure what you mean by "transparent eps file," but if you can get your logo into Photoshop as a path, then you can still use the technique described in Dave’s link. Simply put the logo on a layer of its own as a black fill on a transparent background, then use that as the "text" layer.
I can’t help but ask if you really want to do this. Most corporations frown on using logos in this manner.
=-= Harron =-=
I guess what I meant by transparent, is that there is no background around the lettering, you can say import it into a design program without the "white box" around it…
Do I bring the logo into the picture file or the other way around? I guess I don’t understand what "black fill" means. All I’m doing is putting the image of clouds within our logo, it is only for an internal newsletter…we are a very small company.
Suzanne,
OK. I see you’re working in Photoshop 5. I cannot remember what features were available in that version, but I’m fairly certain clipping groups was not. So, forget about that technique.
Open the EPS logo file in Photoshop (File | Open). You will be asked for dimensional information for rasterizing purposes. Enter numbers that are slightly smaller than the image file you’re using (which, one hopes, also represents something close to your required final size).
Once the logo file is open, look at the layers palette. There should be only one layer, consisting of the logo on a transparent background. Ctrl-click on the layer in the palette. This should give you the "marching ants" around your logo. Hit Ctrl+C to copy the selection onto the pasteboard.
Now you can paste the logo into your image file and use that new layer to create the necessary mask.
=-= Harron =-=
Suzanne,
Another way:
Create your background image. Copy the Illustrator logo to the clipboard and Paste as Paths into Photoshop. Select the path and from the Paths Palette select ‘Make Selection’. Invert the selection and hit ‘Delete’
Suzanne,
Len’s method is much easier if you have Illustrator… an assumption I did not make.
=-= Harron =-=