How to Fill Text with an Image in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to place an image in text with Photoshop. But rather than just filling a single word or a single line of text, we'll take things further and learn a simple trick that lets you place an image in two or more type layers at once!

But what if you have multiple words, each on a separate type layer, that you need to fill with the same image? How do you place an image into two, three or more type layers at the same time? In this tutorial, we'll look at the problem we run into, and the easy solution! I'll be using Photoshop CC but any recent version will work.

► Video chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Open your image
0:41 Add your text
1:00 Add a Solid Color fill layer above the image
1:34 Make a copy of the Background layer
1:48 Drag the copy above the type layers
1:58 The problem: Placing one image into three type layers
3:12 Place the type layers in a layer group
4:02 Clip the "Background copy" layer to the group
4:32 Adding a Drop Shadow to the text
5:46 Changing the background color
6:25 Fading the background color into the image

► Variations of this effect:

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[garym]

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[EpicTreasurePostcards]

I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do more than one word. You have shown me the way. I love your style of teaching. You go slow and you explain every step very well. Thank you so much.

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[agnestennis]

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[MelissaJWhite]

2023 and still an easy, helpful video reminder! Thank you! ❇

[penguin]

Best Tutorial on Youtube! All the other videos have all this extra cutting and erasing that isn't necessary for this specific effect

[coachced]

Wish you would’ve showed how you created the text layers etc. love it

[radiochica]

This was EXTREMELY helpful for me as a PS newbie!!

[TowheedGameX]

love the why you explain step by step thanks

[typebymayank]

explained with such a simplicity...I'm a beginner and it's greatly explicable..thanx once again :)

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