clipping mask

Basic Adjustment Layers - Part 3

Building perfect masks can be a rewarding experience, that's why in the this video I show you a couple of old but well-served techniques for masking in a banner, and ensuring everything else is firmly masked out. First I'll show you a way of selecting and thereby masking every opaque pixel on a layer - not just well, but exactly. In the second demonstration I'll show you how clipping masks work in Elements, something every modest user should know.

Image Inside Text Video Tutorial

In this tutorial we'll look at how to add an image to a block of text for effect. There are many practical ways to use this technique, so once you know how to pin an image into a block of text, there's many more creative ways to employ the secrets of clipping masks for your workflow.