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This lesson demonstrates how to place photographs inside type.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your choice of image onto Photoshop’s workspace; and if necessary, resize it.
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Now, unlock (remove the padlock), from your photograph’s layer, by
double-left-clicking it.
In the subsequent New Layer dialogue box, accept the default settings, then click OK. Your layer’s name will change from Background to Layer 0 - making the layer
editable.
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Now, activate the Horizontal Type Tool - Lesson.
And (with a nice plump font), set your choice of attributes into the Options bar.
Then apply your type.
And click the following Commit any current edits tick - or press Return/Enter.
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Now, position your type over the area you want to include inside the type, using both the Move Tool.
And the Free Transform command. Free Transform command lesson.
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Then activate the Magic Wand Tool, and left-click inside each white letter, to surround them with a selection marquee.
 
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Now, from the Layers palette, activate Layer 0.
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Then from the top menu, choose Select then choose Inverse. The marquee now surrounds both the type and its outer border.
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Now, press your keyboard’s Delete key. The background will then be removed, leaving just your white type, as illustrated below.
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From the Layers palette, (on the type layer), left-click the following Indicates layer visibility eye icon (to remove it). This temporarily hides the type layer.
Hiding the type layer displays the image inside the type - as demonstrated below. Click Ctrl then D to remove the marquee.
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Finish by cropping away extraneous transparent canvas, Crop Tool lesson here.
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Then activate the Blur Tool. 
And with a very low Strength, (1-3), gently smooth away any rough edges.
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Congratulations, your image inside type is complete and ready to save. To fill the transparent layer with a Solid Colour, Pattern or Gradient, link Here. Alternatively, link Here to learn how to optimise and save your work.
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