
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks120
Moving a Background Object in Front of Type
You see this technique used a lot on the covers of major magazines. It’s where an object (most often a person’s head) appears in
front of type. That doesn’t sound like that big of a challenge, but once you realize that the person is on a flattened background
image, with no layers, it becomes a little trickier. Not hard, just a little trickier.
STEP ONE: Open the background photo
that has an object you want to appear
in front of some type. Press the letter T
to switch to the Type tool, click on the
Foreground color swatch at the bot-
tom of the Toolbox to s ...