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Written by Steve Patterson.
On this tutorial, I present you find out how to simply place textual content behind an object in a photograph with Photoshop! This impact is used in all places you look, from journal covers to film posters, and normally entails inserting some textual content behind an individual’s head. As we’ll see, creating the impact in Photoshop is simple. All it takes is a picture, some textual content, a fast choice and a layer masks! Let’s examine the way it works.
This is what the ultimate “textual content behind object” impact will appear like once we’re achieved:
The finished impact.
Let’s get began!
How To Place Textual content Behind An Object
For this tutorial, I am utilizing Photoshop CC however each step is appropriate with Photoshop CS6.
Step 1: Open your picture
Begin by opening the picture the place you need to add some textual content. I will use this picture that I downloaded from Adobe Inventory. I’ll place a few of my textual content behind the soccer participant:
The unique picture. Photograph credit score: Adobe Inventory.
Step 2: Add your textual content
Add your textual content to the picture and place it in entrance of the article. If we glance in my Layers panel, we see that I’ve already added some textual content, and I’ve added a drop shadow simply to make the textual content simpler to see. I will flip the textual content on within the doc by clicking the Sort layer’s visibility icon:
Turning on the Sort layer within the Layers panel.
And now we see the phrase “PHOTOSHOP” sitting in entrance of the picture:
Including the textual content.
Step 3: Duplicate the Background layer
Again within the Layers panel, the picture is sitting on the Background layer. Click on on the Background layer to pick out it:
Deciding on the Background layer.
Make a duplicate of the layer by going as much as the Layer menu within the Menu Bar, selecting New, after which selecting Layer through Copy. Or, you possibly can rapidly duplicate a layer out of your keyboard by urgent Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac):
Going to Layer > New > Layer through Copy.
A replica of the Background layer seems between the unique Background layer and the Sort layer:
The Layers panel exhibiting all three layers.
Step 4: Drag the copy above the Sort layer
We have to transfer the brand new layer above the textual content. Click on on the “Background copy” layer and drag it above the Sort layer:
Dragging the “Background copy” layer above the textual content.
When a spotlight bar seems above the Sort layer, launch your mouse button to drop the layer into place. It will quickly cover your textual content from view:
The layer has been moved above the Sort layer.
Step 5: Select the Fast Choice Device
Subsequent, we have to choose the a part of our topic that is going to look in entrance of the textual content. Photoshop has a number of nice choice instruments to select from, however generally, the Fast Choice Device is the best. I will select it from the Toolbar:
Selecting the Fast Choice Device.
Step 6: Choose the realm that may cover the textual content
Click on and drag with the Fast Choice Device to pick out the areas you want. In my case, I need my textual content to look behind the participant’s head and a part of his jersey, and in addition behind his arms and the soccer, so I will click on and drag inside all of those areas to pick out them. If the Fast Choice Device selects an space outdoors of your topic, press and maintain the Alt (Win) / Choice (Mac) key in your keyboard, after which click on and drag inside the realm to deselect it. You will normally have to trip between choosing and deselecting areas with the Fast Choice Device till your choice seems to be good:
The areas of the topic that may cover the textual content have been chosen.
Viewing the choice in Fast Masks mode
To make the chosen areas simpler to see, I will quickly change to Photoshop’s Fast Masks mode by urgent the letter Q on my keyboard. In Fast Masks mode, the areas across the choice seem as a pink, or rubylith, overlay. And right here we see that I’ve chosen solely the areas that may seem in entrance of the textual content. I will press Q on my keyboard as soon as once more to exit out of Fast Masks mode:
Viewing the choice in Fast Masks mode.
Step 7: Refine the choice with Choose and Masks
Typically, your preliminary choice will endure from tough, jagged edges. To clean them out, click on the Choose and Masks button within the Choices Bar. Notice that Choose and Masks is barely accessible in Photoshop CC. In case you’re utilizing Photoshop CS6, you will need to click on the Refine Edge button. Refine Edge presents many of the identical controls for refining picks as Choose and Masks:
Opening the Choose and Masks workspace.
Altering the View Mode
Within the Choose and Masks workspace or the Refine Edge dialog field, click on the View Mode thumbnail:
Altering the View Mode.
Change the view to On Layers:
Deciding on the On Layers view mode.
This lets us preview how the choice at present seems to be in entrance of the textual content. And right here we see that issues are already wanting nice, at the least from a distance:
Previewing the choice with the textual content seen behind it.
A more in-depth look
But when I zoom in for a better look, we discover some tough edges, particularly across the glove and in addition across the helmet:
The sides do not look nearly as good when seen up shut.
Smoothing out the sides
To clean out the sides, I will drag the Easy slider to the appropriate, to a price of round 10:
Smoothing out the jagged edges.
And now those self same areas look a lot better:
The consequence after dragging the Easy slider.
Be taught extra about refining picks in Photoshop
There’s rather more to refining picks in Photoshop than what I can cowl on this tutorial. To study extra, see my Choose Topic in Photoshop CC 2018 and my Deciding on Hair with Refine Edge tutorials.
Step 8: Output the choice as a layer masks
Now that we have cleaned up the choice, the ultimate step is to output the choice again into Photoshop as a layer masks. Within the Output Settings space, change the Output To choice to Layer Masks, after which click on OK:
Outputting the choice as a layer masks.
Again in Photoshop, a layer masks thumbnail seems on the “Background copy” layer within the Layers panel:
Photoshop transformed the choice right into a layer masks.
And within the doc window, we see the ultimate impact with our textual content sitting properly behind our topic:
The ultimate impact.
And there we have now it! That is find out how to simply place textual content behind an object with Photoshop! Try our Photograph Results part for extra Photoshop results tutorials!
