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Cutting out a transparent edge to layer below

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March 20, 2018
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Hi Everybody -

I want to overlap 2 layer of text (type) above the base layer below. At first I thought the example was just an enlarged black edge, but later realised it is transparent.

Hope this makes sense. Here is an example - the white text layer above (not visible in example) and the white text layer underneath the layer below cuts through the base layer with a transparent edge that I have to assume is done with the text and an overrsized outline of that text.

Thanks for any and all help!

Garry

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Correct answer Bojan Živković11378569

Here are my $0.02 Cutting out a transparent edge to layer below - YouTube

Note: you can add a layer mask to the group of layers, it works exactly the same. Automation is possible using actions but things will be complicated if you are planning to update text.

Bojan Živković11378569

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Here are my $0.02 Cutting out a transparent edge to layer below - YouTube

Note: you can add a layer mask to the group of layers, it works exactly the same. Automation is possible using actions but things will be complicated if you are planning to update text.

Sebastian Bleak

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Hi Garry!

Looks like there’s many different ways to get this result and I’d like to share one with you. You can achieve this look with 3 different layers: Dark Grey as background layer, next bright halftone and white script on top. You can apply a stroke to the white script text that is the same color as the background. It will appear as though we are cutting into the bright halftone but we are only covering it.

Hope you find this helpful

-Sebastian

JJMack

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If the original file was a png file there was a single pixel layer with transparency there were no text layers. There may be color borders around the original text characters. You dif not post that png. The layer palette you show this time looks like you have merged all your layers above your red background layer into a single smart object layer. The only way to work on all you layers now is to open the smart object in Photoshop and edit the object to remove what you do not want. Add a bottom black layer and make only one of the upper layer visible to see the layer content over black. So you can see the pixels on the layer that you do not want in the layer so you can delete them and also add any missing pixels that you want but are not there. The loutline may be cause by missing pixels. Do the same to the other layers one layer at a time. Then make all layer visible delete the black layer and close the work document and reply yes to save it so Photoshop will update your smart object layer's object.

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garry101Author

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Hi JJMack -

I'm sorry for leading you down a long path of uncertainty. Yes, the artwork I bought is a png file and placed on a transparent background so it can be sent to a printing service as a png file to print that very design onto a t-shirt.

The only reason I put it into photoshop was to show you that no matter what color the background (or t-shirt color) is that color will show through and is not just a black stroke outline surrounding the text.

The only thing I sometimes do to one of the png files that I purchase is - take it into photoshop and add a mask to the layer and then apply a texture pattern to make the image look distressed and worn -- or.... let even more of the t-shirt color come through the open or transparent portions of the design. Then save it back to .png on a transparent background for the t-shirt printing service to print the design onto a t-shirt.

I also make my own text-based t-shirt designs in photoshop, and I am a professional photographer so I do a lot of my own retouching etc and am very familiar with layers and masks and textures. I'm just not the graphic designer I would wish to be.

But the previous png file with overlapping text was originally done in photoshop with layers for each line of text. Graphic Designers of work like this won't give out their secrets because that's how they make money and sell you a design that you like - but only deliver you a png file.

I like what they did and want to make my own graphic designs sometimes - albeit not as good as a good designer but I at least aspire to.

So I wasn't trying to do anything in photoshop with that previous png file example. I was only showing it as the end result of what I still want to attempt to do. I'm not a graphic designer - so I don't know some of the tricks they do, but I want to learn. And this forum has been especially helpful along with all the various versions of Photoshop that I have had over the years. And I just wanted to glean some knowledge of how to do this "text stroke edge cutout" Maybe it's some sort of stroke edge that punches through a layer beneath it. But how d I do that/ Is there a magic stoke on a font that makes a transparent knockout layer beneath it allowing the background (or t-shirt color) to come through?

Below is an example of how I construct a text-based T-shirt file in Photoshop Cc 2018 and then save it as.psd and then save it again as a .png file to send to the t-shirt printing service

I hope all of the above is understandable - I'm a very simple guy trying to learn something to make my efforts even better

JJMack

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You poster a png if you want to write about layers and Photoshop items you should post a screen capture of you document open in Photoshop where where the layers palette and other importation palettes are visible so we can get some idea of what you writing about. Are your text layers text layers or pixels layers containing text etc.

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garry101Author

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Hello JJMack -

Hope these screenshots make sense -

Where the text layers (upper pink layer and lower red layer) cross over the white bottom layer I want the "pink" and "red" text to cut out the white layer with an over sized transparent shape of the text.

Example of it being used is the white lettering cutting out a transparent shape of the text "over" the blue FISH text (3rd screen shot).

Hope this makes sense