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How do I delete everything outside of the letters?

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June 22, 2019
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Basically, I've merged the blocks of flowers to the layers of the letters, and I want to have the flowers only inside the letters; how do I delete everything outside of the letters, in a clean easy way?

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최고의 답변: Norman Sanders

Here are the step-by-step instructions you requested:

1. Open the flower file and, in the Layers panel, drag the layer down to the Create New Layer symbol to create a duplicate layer.

2. Choose Image > Mode > Lab Color … don’t merge.

3. In the Cannels panel choose the Lightness channel,

4. Return to the Layers panel and choose Image > Adjustments > Curves

5. As shown above, the Curve will appear as either a light-to-dark or dark-to-light grayscale at the base of the Curves grid. In each case drag the light slider to the dark end of the scale to create the black outline letter shown in the image above. It does not have to be pure white. OK

6. Choose Image > Mode > RGB Color … don’t merge

Refer to my original Post illustration.

7. Use the Quick Selection tool to make a selection of the inside of the letters and then Edit > Fill with white.

8. Choose Select > Inverse to inverse the Selection and Edit > Fill with black. It will look like the image alongside the outline image in the original Post

9. Select > Deselect the marching ants

10, Still in the HA layer choose Select > All followed by Edit > Copy

11. Choose the flower layer and add a mask by first clicking on the Mask symbol at bottom of the Layers panel

12. Hold down the Opt (Alt) key and click on the Mask in the flower panel. The screen will go white. Fear not.

13. Choose Edit > Paste. Turn the eye off in the HA layer and turn the eye on in the flower layer.

You may add a blank layer at the bottom of stack as shown in the original post and add a flat color, pattern or image surrounding the flowered HA

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DeanUtian

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A lot of good advice here already. Here is another resource that may be helpful - a video that shows how to fill text with an image.

How to Fill Text with an Image in Photoshop - YouTube

Norman Sanders

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Assuming the layers have been merged:

1. Change Mode to Lab Color and duplicate the image layer

2. Choose the Lightness channel and apply the Curve shown. Result Fig 1

3. Return to RGB. Use the Quick Selection tool and Edit > Fill. To create type on Black

4. Apply as a mask and turn off the top layer as shown

Option: If a Black outline is desired make a selection of the type and Edit > Stroke

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HEADASS작성자

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This is great, but I'm a PS noob, so I don't really know how to do all that you just said; could you please lay out everything I need to do?

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HEADASS작성자

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Note that, in my instructions, I wrote that the white background needn't be a pure white. Nothing is wrong. Because of the ultra-steep Curve, some of the lighter flower tone will return when you click OK. No problem. There is sufficient contrast against the black HA line that the Quick Selection tool will give you marching ants hugging to the inside of the black line to create a perfect Selection.

One more thing; sorry to be annoying. How do I get that perfect selection on the inside? Because while I agree that the black HA line gives enough contrast, the flower lines mean that not everything inside the letters is selected.

c.pfaffenbichler

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If you still have the meaningful unmerged Layers clipping masking (Layer > Create Clipping Mask) the Layer with the pattern to the Layer with the letters might suffice.