Aloha! How do I use a picture "inside" of text. Help please!

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Lani_Allen
May 28, 2005
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Okay, sorry I am totally confused. I opened a pic … layer one .. I put my name in ..text layer two and I hold alt and click but nothing happens … what is supposed to happen? I’m going nuts here *lol* Sorry.
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Pierre_Courtejoie
May 28, 2005
ALT+click in the Layers palette on the line that is between the two layers. They need to be adjacent.
SB
Stephen_Brooke
May 28, 2005
Make sure the picture is ABOVE the text layer.
MV
Mathias_Vejerslev
May 29, 2005
Also, you probably need to change the name of ‘layer one’ to something else than Background before you can do this..
HL
hanford_lemoore
May 30, 2005
The method they’re describing above is known as Grouping layers (in 7 and below) or Clipping Masks (in CS and above).

Here’s a way to do it with a Knockout … probably a little over-the-top for what you need but here it is:

<http://www.hanfordlemoore.com/photoshop/knockout.htm>

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