I am sorry if I don't use the correct jargon throughout this post, I am a very occasional user of Photoshop!
I have Photoshop CS4 Extended.
I want to create an "inverse" layer.
Here's what I mean:
1) create a new canvas.
2) Choose a large, bold font and write on the canvas (E.g. "Hello World").
3) Select all the letters (using the magic wand tool, click on each letter while holding down the shift key)
4) Invert the selection.
5) Get stuck, no idea what to do next. Try various things and get nowhere!
I want to make a new layer that contains the inverted selection as a shape that I can do things to like any other shape (e.g. in the shape library).
So, for example, I could fill the surrounding area with red and the letters will be transparent.
I've tried converting the inverted selection to a clipping mask, but after that I get in a bugger's muddle.
Perhaps I am going about this in completely the wrong way? Perhaps there's a better way?
Once again, I apologise if I sound like a three-year-old trying to explain something to an adult, but that's the extent of my knowledge of Photoshop!!
