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yiwei_cao
11-03-2006, 09:20 AM
Hi,
I am new to graphic design. I am doing a poster. I want to write texts with pictures as background. A show case is like the text "web 2.0" on http://www.veryweb.it/?page_id=27
How can I do this? Is it possible to do it with coral draw 11? Thanks!
JustAGuy
11-03-2006, 10:07 AM
Hi Yiwei, welcome to GDF.
You can use clipping mask (AI) on a white rectangle and a certain text converted to outlines. On a second layer beneath it you place the pictures. For CD I can't help you, but it's probably the same but with different names.
yiwei_cao
11-03-2006, 11:43 AM
Thanks! I have not found the similar function in coral draw or coral photo paint. Anyway, I got the basic idea how to do it. I would have a try in photoshop. I hope I could find the same function in photoshop.
prewe
11-03-2006, 11:48 AM
in photoshop you can do like this:
make a collage of the photos you like to use.
put the text in a layer above the photo-layer.
ctrl-click on the preview thumbnail in the layer-window, the textlayer thumb that is.
make the photolayer active, inverse the selection, hit delete, remove the text-layer.
voila.
capezio
11-03-2006, 12:47 PM
create outlines and turn into picture box, then import picture tif or pdf
dyers78
11-03-2006, 03:22 PM
or just use the single click method known as... create clipping mask. That is why it is there.
1. Make an image layer (whatever you want, say a colage - sp?).
2. Make a new text layer and position it under the image you want clipped. Under layers menu click "create clipping mask".
This way is non-destructive and can still be edited easily.
Sphinx
11-03-2006, 03:27 PM
You can also create a hires bitmap of the type. Then place it over the image in your page layout program and color it white or whatever you wish.
yiwei_cao
11-03-2006, 10:20 PM
Hi,
thank you all! I assume all suggestions are based on 1) text convert to outlines and 2) in photoshop. I have installed photoshop 7. However, I did not see the function yet. :confused:
Rocketpig
11-03-2006, 10:22 PM
In Photoshop it's not called "Convert to Outlines"... That's Illustrator.
I believe it's called "Rasterize Layer (or text)" in Photoshop. I don't have it open in front of me right now.
Correct Rocketpig - Long Time No See :D
Layer > Rasterize > Type
Rocketpig
11-03-2006, 10:35 PM
Thanks MD. I've been busy.
Nice sig, BTW. Very l337.
urstwile
11-04-2006, 01:50 AM
If you do this in Photoshop, you can actually use unrasterized type layers that will perform similarly to Illy's Clipping Mask.
In Photoshop, put your type on a layer below your images. On the image layer, choose create Clipping Mask. The image will be clipped to the type layer below. I've done this in Photoshop 6, so it should be possible in version 7.
The nice thing about this is that you can still edit the type, it doesn't have to be converted to outlines or rasterized.
Nice sig, BTW. Very l337.
Read the backstory on my l337 sig
http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21416&highlight=black+tech+border
Rocketpig
11-04-2006, 04:56 AM
Read the backstory on my l337 sig
http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21416&highlight=black+tech+border
Hahahahahah... You are such a dick.
yiwei_cao
11-04-2006, 10:42 PM
Hi all,
I found this forum is really very nice. Thank you and my job is done in Photoshop.
Best regards from Aachen.
urstwile
11-04-2006, 11:40 PM
Hi all,
I found this forum is really very nice. Thank you and my job is done in Photoshop.
Best regards from Aachen.
I've been to Aachen. We went to Charlemagne's Cathedral.
yiwei_cao
11-08-2006, 01:23 PM
I've been to Aachen. We went to Charlemagne's Cathedral.
That's great! ;)
Broacher
11-08-2006, 01:42 PM
dyers78: just to prove that somebody actually read the whole thread (been there), I want to acknowledge that the method you (and later, Urstwhile) described is both the simplest and most flexible (non-destructive).
I know, I know... most of us here are very easily distra.... oooh! Is that a donut?
fingerPrint.Design
11-08-2006, 01:50 PM
For future reference this how it is done in CD, put a stroke around your type, no fill. Import your pic into CD. Select the pic with the arrow tool, then
Effects>Powerclip>Place inside container
It will then give you a big arrow, click inside the text you want to put the pic in, to position the pic as needed crtl click, and move pic around.
Then you should be done.
Hope this helps