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rodrigo_vda

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:38 am    Post subject: How to hollow a layer with letter shapes Reply with quote

Hi there. I'm designin some "Boss tables" for a videogame Guide, and there is something I want to do with the name of the boss:

Let's see: there are 3 Layers: Background layer, material layer and Text Layer.
What I want to do is that you can see througt the material layer the background layer where the letters are. Something like making a hole in "Material layer" with whatever it's in "Text layer" so it looks like there are letter shaped holes in the "Material layer".

I'm not interested in rasterize the text layer, because I'm going to use this model a lot of times, so I want it to be editable text, to write whatever I want.

I hope I have explained it correctly so you can understand :P



cuadro jefes.rar
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I want to see the "Backgroud Layer" through the "Material Layer" where it says "BROTE DE SINH: EMÚS"

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18679939/cuadro%20jefes%20version%202.psd
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rodrigo_vda

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thx for your help, but I was looking for something that didn't need any "extra" steps to b done, something like, for example, If ther's a typo, I can fix it without needing to do this process again.

I found a solution, so I will share it here:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/clipping-masks-and-type/

I used this same principle, duplicating the background layer so I could use it like this. This is the result:

EDIT: The text is in a smart object because in the context I needed this I needed to have more than one text in the smart object, I deleted all of the text to size down the file so I could upload it here.



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