Clarification for Day 12 - Cropped/hidden photo as title

here another way to do this from @cfile
(thank you Christa!)

With any software you are using make a rectangle. Fill in with color. On your next layer in a good chunky font write your title. Adhere that next to and touching the rectangle so they are one. Merge them together. Now take your photo and place above your new shape created from the rectangle and the word and place over it and use the shapeword as a cookie cutter for your photo. Once you have done all that, decorate your page as normal.

 

This was Christa @cfile? ! Tea not coffee! I don't believe it!
Seriously though, thanks for the clarification & step by step, guys!

 

So funny! I didn't even catch that Justine - but you are right!

 

You ladies are wonderful I did not see this post until now but Jenn altered me to this exact problem with my page in a PM. I think it is great to have this post here for people to see if they might be having the same difficulty. With Jenn's help and the above tea example I was able to fix my lay-out to comply Happy scrapping everyone Also @mrs2a50 your explanation was VERY helpful

 

Ha Ha Justine.. yeah every now and again.. LOL re tea

 

So glad I could help.. Tracy, feel free to PM me at anytime to help you re PSE if you need it XO

 

Aw Thank you Christa Will do!

 

@MariSt that is so cool the way you used two words at the top! Great job making it work!
I hope you posted it to the regular day 12 thread too!

 

Oh man - I so did it the hard way! Next time I'll know the easier way!

 

Hay Christa, love your suggestion, but was thinking, can't you also make a clipping mask out of the black rectangle with the word attached and clip your photo to it????? Just wondering. I am still learning my way through clipping masks!!

 

Yes, I think Christa chose not to use the term "clipping" mask bc some programs don't seem to have that feature maybe? But that is how you use the combined shape and title mask in PS and PSE.

 

Sorry I didn't write up the instructions like this. I did it with separate title and shape because I thought it gave more flexibility in moving the title around after you clip your photos - for me I didn't like where the flower sat when I clipped my photo to everything. I like having my title mask and shape mask separate - so I could move my title to different locations along my shape edge to find the best fit. That's the reason I gave the instructions the way I did. It's not really all that many more steps IMHO. The only difference is a duplicate photo layer.

 

Your directions were fine, Jan. I think I reinvented the wheel, but you said that any way we could do it -that was fine. I have to do things weirdly sometimes. My brain must be weird.

 

That's a great idea being able to move both! What's nice is along with your great instructions, everyone is getting more ideas on how to do this. With PS and PSE, there are so may different ways to do thing!!!

 

@RJMJ Did you see this post and how to use if to day 12's page? I saw you were still having trouble. There aren't rules for the rest of the page, so you can still scrap in your preferred style

 

I PM'd these to RJMJ - waiting to hear back how she made out!

 

I did mine this way and thought I was cheating, lol. Then I found this post that says it was ok

 

I did it that way too. I figured it was the easiest. When I layered it over, I gave it a stroke to make sure that it was touching according to the rules!