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117CHAPTER 6 • Cool Type Effects
Putting an Image into Type (Clipping Group)
This technique lets you take any image and place (clip) it inside type that you’ve set on the layer directly beneath it. This is a
pretty flexible effect because you can reposition your image inside the type once it’s grouped, and if for some reason you don’t
like the results, you can easily undo the effect.
STEP ONE: Create a new document in
RGB mode (the one here is 8x6"). Press
the letter D to set your Foreground
color to black, then press the letter T
to switch to the Type tool. Create some
large display-sized type (tall, thick type-
faces, like the Impa