How to Fill Text With an Image in Adobe InDesign

Placing an image inside a single character can give your layouts a super-professional, design-forward look. And it’s really simple to achieve! In this video, you’ll learn how to transform your typography into picture frames, to dramatic effect! We’ll be using Adobe InDesign for this tutorial. You’ll often see this sort of design technique being used in high-end magazine design, to give added impact to headlines and to showcase a photo in a unique and eye-catching way. It can also add drama to book design, marketing materials and poster design. In this tutorial, we’ll set up an InDesign layout for a magazine spread, and experiment with creating our image-filled text on that. Let’s get started!

[raauw]

Skip to 2:00 and save yourself 2 minutes of your life.

[dramadrama]

Really useful tips! The following is a summary of how to create the text filled with an image:
1. Type the character you want and adjust the font size to be much larger
2. Select the character you just typed in and go to "Type" > "Create Outlines"
3. Choose "none" as the fill color of the character (which means there is no fill) [This step does not affect a lot.]
4. Go to "File" > "Place" > Choose the picture you like > "Ok"

[TMize-bmsk]

Thank you so much for the quick and succinct instructions. Exactly what I was looking for.

[sorianoraul]

THANKS for the quick tip! Really useful and easy to follow 👏🤩

[nikkirenee]

Great video! Thanks for this awesome tip!

[georgschildknecht]

Lobster, cool Font!
thanks for showing how to!!

[aiacoboaieimaria]

you are a life saver <3 thank you very much!!!

[mustafajackson]

This was very helpful.


Thank you.

[grantharris]

You are KIDDING me... so easy. You are HIRED thank you !

Nice! What if I want to add more than one image to the letter?

[ademirburns]

Dear friend, maybe you can help me, so far none of the youtubers specialized in Adobe Indesign could not answer my problem. I have an image and I want my "text to be on it", but anchored to this text. How should I do it?

[zanh]

great i only thought i needed photoshop lol