How To Add Photo Into Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial is created in Photoshop CC, but it works in whatever version of Photoshop. Larn how to fill a shape with a photograph.

1. Using advanced Blending: Blend if.. in Photoshop

If you are working against a make clean shape with a solid background, this method is the fastest.  Hither is a shape I drew, black against white.

Step two.

Place the photograph above the shape on a new layer.  (How to combine images in Photoshop)

Step three.

With your paradigm layer selected (1)…

Click of the fx (2) in the Layer panel and choose Blending Options from the driblet down upwards menu.

Drag the triangle on the bottom bar (iv) to the left.

The edges will expect jaggy. Hold Alt/Option and drag the right side of the triangle to the right. The edges will at present exist smooth

Click ok

Method #2: Paste Into. Photoshop Layer Mask technique

Works well for a flattened shape with groundwork showing.

Step 1.

With the photo on the layer in a higher place the shape, Press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select all

Press Cmd/Ctrl+C to copy the photo to the clipboard.

Step 2.

Hide the prototype layer and select the shape on the background

Choose Select>Colour Range

Catch the Shadows choice to just select the blackness

Step 3

Click ok and the shape is at present selected

Choose Edit>Paste Special>Paste into

You will now run into the epitome in the shape.

The shape is actually on a layer mask. If you lot drag on the image you can move it around within the shape.

Method #3. Clipping Groups in Photoshop

This next method is the i that I use the most often. However, you demand to take the shape cut out with transparent effectually it. This is how any of the custom shapes work in Photoshop. You can also cut information technology out yourself, see the video above for instructions on doing this.

Step 1.

Make certain you have the shape with transparency.

Identify the photo on the layer above the shape. (Hither it is subconscious, so you can see the shape)

Footstep 2.

Make the image visible, y'all won't see the shape on the sail at the moment.

Place you curser between the photo and the shape layer in the layers console.

Agree down/Alt/Option and the cursor will plough into a foursquare arrow.

Click to apply

Yous tin at present drag on the top layer to resize or reposition it within the shape.

This is called a clipping group and information technology's something you should try to utilize oft.

Hither i have added a textured background and a little inner shadow to add a petty depth to our effect. Information technology makes it look like a cutting matte.

In the video tutorial at the summit I walk through this step by stride.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, is then, share information technology with your friends. (There are buttons to share on social media, or only cutting and paste the address on height of the page).

Thank you,

Colin

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