Blending image and text - How to reproduce the effect?

[dominiosantos]

Hi guys, newbie here.

So, the thing is: Three weeks ago, I made a cover for my academic paper. I'm no designer neither a good photoshopper. But, somehow I made a cool effect (well, I think it was cool...) blending the image and text. But, the cover was on a really low resolution, and now I have to recreate the entire thing on a resolution fit for printing (300 dpi).

Well, it's not a complex piece, and I had the stock photos ready. Typed my text, applied the effects and everything is almost the same. Except the text blending. I have no idea how I made it last time.



I'm trying desperately to reproduce the effect, but I can not remember how it was made. The photo above is the original cover, the one I made 3 weeks ago. How can I blend the little girl image with the text, getting this effect, text following the shadows and lights of the image?

I have the girl layer, already cropped to fit the model. I have the text layer, already formatted (colored black). Now I just need to blend them. How can I do it? Tryed creating a layer mask on the text layer and putting the image on the mask, but it desature the image. Tried messing with opacity and layer modes, but to no avail. Anyone knows how to reproduce this effect?

I'm using Photoshop CS 5.1, it's the same I made the original cover on.

P.S. Yes, I'm a dork. I saved a .psd file of the original cover, but one where I alredy merged all the layers together. Why the hell I did it? God only knows.........

 

[ibclare]

Hi dominio, you aren't alone. The only difference is that I finally understand a little bit about Photoshop and can reproduce most of my own work if I don't detail my steps.

We had this discussion quite recently. The simplest method is to place your text box above the image and set the layer blend mode to difference. If that doesn't give you the color result you want there are other methods. No, there are numerous methods, lol. But try this first and see if it's what you need.

 

[Tom Mann]

Dominio -

Check out this recent thread, particularly, the last few posts:

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...hanging-light-dark-areas-readability-how.html

Tom M