Photoshop Quick Tip: How to Create Photo Text with Type Mask Tool

A Photoshop quick tip (video) on how to create a Photo Text (text with image inside) using Type Mask Tool. In Photoshop,  there are several ways to create photo text, one of the quickest way to create photo text is by using Type Mask Tool. I hope you enjoy and find this lil Photoshop Tip useful.



I'm just starting with video tuts, so please excuse a lil low resolution of video or if you find it too fast or slow. I intend to make more video tip/tuts so with practice it hopefully will get better.

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Out of Bounds Photo Effect

When I saw Out of Bounds effect on a photo for the first time, I was awestruck and impressed. I was new to Phootoshop and was excited to try it myself as well. There was also a OOB contest, so that was also one of the reason to really try it. Below you will see the Out of Bound Photo Effect that I did long time ago!

Edit: May 2.2010

Recently again I was in a mood to create Out of Bounds Effect and here are the couple of OOBs I created:

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A Collection of Free Stunning and Beautiful Bokeh Textures for Your Designs

These days one sees a lot of bokeh effect in web design. Big headers with colorful, glossy bokeh effect can be seen in lot of web designs. The term bokeh is used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture. It's that wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights.

No doubt, you can create you own bokeh effects but design community is amazing, there are tons of free bokeh textures and graphics available on web. Below you will find a collection of around 100's of free stunning and beautiful bokeh textures, which you can use as it is or customize it in Photoshop and adapt it to your design projects. Be sure to read the terms for usage and copyright advice also. Click on the images for the original resource and download link.

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2 Free Photoshop Brush Viewer Apps

Photoshop brushes are awesome you can make your own custom brushes and there are lots of cool free brushes available on web, in fact too many to install them all just to see what they look like! So, if you ever wanted to view your Photoshop .abr file (Brush set) without having to open the Photoshop and installing them read on to find 2 nifty opensource free apps which allows you to do just that!

ABRviewer
You can have the preview of a set without having to install it, without having to run photoshop! You can even adjust thumbnails size and you can have the preview of the actual size of the brush… you can also try it out!
This software is able to generate images for every single brush and can also generate the general image from the panel of the thumbnails you have visualised.

ABRView
All you have to do is download the utility, run it, and double click on the brush set you want to preview. (If it's in a non-standard place, you may also need to tell the utility to look in that folder)

You can adjust the preview sizes, or if you want to see the full size images on their own, just look in the "ABRViewImages" folder next to the program and you'll find all the brush images.

Not only that, but the program automatically produces set images, so if you create brushes you can produce a brush set profile image at the click of a button!

Personally, I use the first one, ABRviewer, but I think both of them are neat tools, just like how you can view the fonts! So try it, if you are not already using it, or if you are using or know about any other app, feel free to share with us!

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30 Brilliant Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Photoshop combined with a designer's skill can do awesome stuffs! And, one of those awesome stuffs are Text Effects, one can create some amazing text effects in Photoshop! With this article I tried to look around the web to see some stunning text effect tutorials because no matter what your skill sets are we all need to keep sharpening our skills, experiments and learn something new!

Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text

Kaboom! Exploding Text

Realistic Chrome and Glossy Plastic Text Effect

Patriotic Text Using Displacement Masks

How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

 

Great Gooey Photoshop Text Tutorial

 

Slow Shutter Effect

 

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

 

Creating Very Cool Folded Typo

 

Scanline Text

Old School Type – Line Gradients

6 Quick’n'Dirty Photoshop Text Effects From Scratch

Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

Shiny Calligraphy Text Effect in Photoshop

 

Write Message In Sand

Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop

Paint Graffiti on Wall in Photoshop

How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

Text In Stitches

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Text Effects - Plastic Text

Watercolor Text Painted on a Wet Paper

Aged/Distressed Type Effect in Photoshop + Free Action Download

How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop

3D Text effects

Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect

Multi-colored effect

Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

3D Textured Text Effect

And, this one is written by yours truly as guest author! :)

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