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Fit Image to Shape in Photoshop Clipping Mask Tutorial

Fit Image to Shape in Photoshop Clipping Mask Tutorial

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I have shown you all of these three scenarios where you might want to confine your images to a shape or you want to show a pattern only through that shape like a cutout. Doesn't matter how complex or simple the shape or the image is, all clipping mask does is that, it makes any object in the layer below the layer in which clipping mask has been applied to act as a placeholder for the image which is present in the clipping mask layer. The clipping mask layer can also be an adjustment layer. In that way, a clipping mask layer only allows the effects on the object of the layer below it. It acts as a mask using the layer below as a reference. To summarize it, simply, a Clipping Mask is nothing but a mask on any kind of layer where the mask is nothing but the layer that it below the clipping mask layer. This can be very useful as you can just create placeholders like rectangles and circles if you are designing a Magazine or a Brochure and just import the images into layers in the form of clipping masks instead of fiddling with the size and cropping out again and again. This can be fitting picture or an image to a box, or the area that you might have defined near the text. The great thing about the clipping mask tool is that it can be applied to anything. Be it a shape, object, image, brush strokes and even an adjustment layer. In this video, we are going to take advantage of this to fit images, object or text to almost anything. Firstly, we need to make or import the shape layer. This can be a transparent png, or a vector shape or something that you created with a transparent background. It can also be text. But, there are two criteria, one, this has be to a separate shape on a separate layer and two, it must not have a background. If it has a background, clipping mask won't be able to identify which part of the image would you want to make a placeholder. Secondly, once your object or the structure is ready, the second step is to bring the image that you want to fit to the shape on the later above the shape layer that you just made. Thirdly, press and hold the Alt key on Windows, Option key on Mac and move the cursor in between the two layers. You would see that the cursor has changed to a rectangle and a down arrow. When that happens, click the mouse button and Clipping Mask will be applied. Thanks for reading till the end, I must let you know that there is a surprise at the end of the video, so, keep watching. (Don't skip it, you might miss)
Date: 2022-07-19

Comments and reviews: 18


Great tutorial! I feel like the reason so many people are confused by clipping masks is because Adobe (once again) makes it counterintuitive by placing the clipping mask on the layer you don't want to be visible. Using this project as an example, the intuitive layer order would be the text on top as a clipping mask looking through to the leaves on bottom. The clipping mask would clip everything around the letters away. This would make so much more sense, in terms of order. Too late to change now, but another example of Adobe making things much more confusing than they need to be.
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5: 32 Thank you, that was the part that solved my damn problem. It was driving me nuts, trying to create clipping masks and testing all kinds of things. I didn't realize that you needed to have a solid background for it to work, still don't fully understand but at least I got it to work.
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Awesome tutorial man, you deserve a million viewers. I like the way you do your indepth tutorial which help newbies like me to understand on how to edit on photoshop in a none destructive way and appreciate the small details on how to do things.
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Excellent, but I am wondering why you say the word very fast when you describe things about using the keyboards like Ctrl + Alt. etc it is so confusing! try to say it slowly. but really thank you
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Additional fun fact, if you want to spread the text across to layers you can group the two text layers and then link the image in the same fashion as you did with a single text layer
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i cant do anything nothing helps i want to fit in image perferctly inside a slantted shape but it wont go diagonal and it will not fi its niotf air it never weorks for me
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The last one was EXACTLY what I have been search and searching for, for quite a long time. Taking my rectangular jpegs and killing the sharp right angle edges
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can someone tell me what photoshop version is this? CS6 EXtended 13. 0. 1 x32, that icon of the cursor (arrow and box )
Time stamp 2: 16 thanks guys

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I was have a problem with a project that I was working on and could not find away to adding a mask from a shape and Mr SuperPi comes along, thank you
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There is no option of Pixels in Windows tab in mac. How to can I directly import the background in photoshop CS6?
Please help for the same.

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Even 4 years after, I am still watching to the end, you are amazing hermanito, big hugs to you and congratulations for your amazing content
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You're the man! You taught this old man a new trick. Message me and we will make you a free t-shirt for the help. Take care!
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You are an amazing instructor. Finally someone who explains well and is easy to understand. Thank you so much.
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It'll be better if you provide the steps at the end, so that we can do more easily following the steps one by one
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Nice video bro, but the link to download cannot access anymore. Can you please provide new link? Thank you so much.
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Where do you download transparent images like the one you are using, because i cant find the right one?
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whenever I search up anything photoshop related you always have a simple video for it bro, U the GOAT u heardd
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Hi,
I need your help
Already I have existing shape in pdf, so I need to fill up the photos in my PDF.

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