Photoshop Technique - Image Inside Text

Putting an Image Inside Text

To insert an image into text, you start off my opening up an image in Photoshop, you then type the text you want to insert an image into and then Rasterize the text so that it can be treated as an image.

You then select the text using the magic wand tool, you must make sure that you have selected every letter.

Once you have selected each letter, you save this selection. Here I have chosen to save this selection as “Text” because I have selected the text.

Once I had saved my selection, I inserted the image that I want to place inside my text. I then choose the rectangular select tool on the toolbar and use the mouse to drag a rectangle to select the part of the image that I want to use. Then I use ‘cmd+c’ to copy this selection.

Once you have copied the portion of the image that you are going to use, go to select on the top bar and load selection. Then choose the text that you saved from earlier and your selection will be highlighted.

When the text is highlighted, go to edit at the top and select special paste and paste into. Now your image should paste into the text. 

When your image has pasted into the text, go to the layers on the right of the page and click between the two images to lock them together. You will not be able to move them as one image instead of separately. You have now got text with an image inside.

I put a few different Photoshop techniques together and created this poster for a Hardwell tour. This was a practice poster but it is an example of what I am able to do in Photoshop and I will use similar techniques to create a tour poster for our created artist when we get to that stage of production.

This is my own version of this technique. This is to the theme of the Red Bull Harbour Reach wakeboarding competition that took place in Liverpool earlier on in the summer. I have simply used the text "Harbour Reach" and have inserted the Red Bull logo into it.