Clipping Masks

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Hi,

Followed the tutorial to the letter; but all I achieve is one image overlaying another; no transparency whatsoever. Any advice anyone? Thanks.

[Man1c M0g]

Originally Posted by Tribal

Hi,

Followed the tutorial to the letter; but all I achieve is one image overlaying another; no transparency whatsoever. Any advice anyone? Thanks.

Hmmm... thats very odd. I'd make doubly sure that you have the correct color mode selected (RGB), and that the text layer is BELOW the image layer.

[Bub]

Seems to work for me when I follow the tutorial exactly. Just make sure you have 3 layers. Black one on the bottom, text layer in the middle, and the image on top.

Originally Posted by Bub

Seems to work for me when I follow the tutorial exactly. Just make sure you have 3 layers. Black one on the bottom, text layer in the middle, and the image on top.

Yes. Works fine for me now too! In described manner. Initially I imported a scanned image rather than using 'New' then 'Text'. Only after following tutorial from scratch did I noticed the 3 distinct layers; this didn't happen when I initially opened a B&W logo and applied said clipping technique. Apologies to the writer!

Still having major probs applying clipping to logo though. Can't achieve the initial two seperations. Would really like to know how to seperate logo from background.

Thanks for the help.

[Bub]

Email me the materials and what you want to to look like and I'll try to fix it for ya. jmmille@gmail.com

[danj]

Hi. I'm new to Photoshop and this tutorial was very helpful. Thanks

[deb5253]

Thanks so much, I am trying to design digital scraps and this was a great help for using the background papers I design to further embellish my kit with alphas.
Thanks so much!

[Tuomoz]

Hi, I tired your tutorial but at the step 3 I can´t find such option as "create clipping mask" in my Photoshop Layer menu. I have Photoshop 7. isn´t that feature in Photoshop 7?

[Tamlin]

The option to create Layer Clipping Masks has been around since PS 6. If you can't see the option in the menu, try the keyboard shortcut Alt+Ctrl+G (you have to have an active layer for this to work, of course - you can't create a clipping mask from the Background).

[Cyclist]

Hi- I am working on betting my skills, and I am trying to use the clipping mask with a locked baselayer. Is this possible? I did not create the baselayer, but it belongs to our company. All of the tutorials I have found on the web do not illustrate the clipping mask using a locked baselayer, hence the question.

Originally Posted by tamlin

The option to create Layer Clipping Masks has been around since PS 6. If you can't see the option in the menu, try the keyboard shortcut Alt+Ctrl+G (you have to have an active layer for this to work, of course - you can't create a clipping mask from the Background).

[Man1c M0g]

Originally Posted by Cyclist

Hi- I am working on betting my skills, and I am trying to use the clipping mask with a locked baselayer. Is this possible? I did not create the baselayer, but it belongs to our company. All of the tutorials I have found on the web do not illustrate the clipping mask using a locked baselayer, hence the question.

I'm afraid that isn't possible - clipping masks can never be the base layer. My advice is to change the baselayer into a normal layer and then go from there. You don't NEED a background layer when saving in PSD format, it only makes one when you save the image as a web format.

[Asa1602]

I have been hearing this term "Clipping Masks" quite a bit lately in other forums and now I have found a tutorial that is going to help me understand what exactly this stuff is all about. Thank you for posting this tutorial.