Everyone uh, this video we are going to trap, first of all an image inside of a giant letter. Okay? We've done that before. Clipping mask and then we're gonna look at blending modes and watch this. Okay? We can do the same thing we did with text, but with images.
In this case, we're gonna kind of like line up two different letters and offset it a little bit to make it look cool. Um, but yeah, basically the same principle as before, but we're gonna deal with images. Alright, let's jump in. Okay? If you wanna follow along exactly. Uh, open up blending modes.
O2. You don't need to basically just need a colored box. Uh, this doesn't really work very well as you've got a completely black background or a completely white background. It's better with color. Um, blending modes just work that way. The interaction is what is useful.
So, um, what we're gonna do is let's type in a giant letter. Uh, having the tiki for my type tool. I'm gonna click once and I'm gonna type in G select it and I'm gonna pick the font that I'm using. I really like Museo. Okay? Um, it's uh, if I could spell it Muo.
Okay. It is a nice big font. You can find it on Adobe fonts, uh, fonts adobe.com and download it. Okay? Just pick any font. Um, I'm gonna use the rounded version.
I really like it. Big, thick, rounded right there. All right, finally found it. Um, and size-wise. You can go through here and update it. I list like grabbing the black arrow, holding shift key, grabbing this and just dragging it bigger.
It's just like the cheap way to get the size, especially if you need to go up something massive. Alright, giant G. Um, now let's bring in an image. So we're gonna place an image. The shortcut is command shift, P on a Mac, uh, control shift P on pc and in your exercise files there is one called blending modes. O three, it's jp.
Um, I'm gonna drag it so it kind of covers my letter. Okay, you can resize it afterwards. Um, now the way the clipping mask works to get it inside of it, okay, we need to make sure that the G'S on top. So what we're gonna do is I'm going to send it to the back command shift. Uh, first square bracket, kinda sends it to the back or control shift first square bracket. Um, I've got a locked background.
Um, that's why mine, I've got a background. It's locked just to make things easier, that's why mine didn't go behind here. But we need the G on top of the image. Select both of them. Okay? And then we hit command seven or Ctrl seven on a PC and it's inside.
Hooray. Now blending modes, I'm gonna select it and just like we did before, go to opacity and I'm gonna go to normal. I'm gonna go to darken. Okay? I think on PCs you can hover above these and it will actually like give you the, you don't have to click on them. Um, yeah, I have to.
Okay, so I'm gonna work my way through and I practice this already and I like, I like overlay and it's kind of cool. I like the way it interacts. Like your image and your background color will determine what this looks like. So if you got a different image and a different background color, those won't look the same. It'll be kind of the same using overlay but not the exact same. So the thing I want you to remember when you are using and experimenting with these is you often combine them.
Okay? So let's say that I like this, I'm gonna copy and paste it, I'm gonna move it out. The other weird thing is watch this when I move it out, what is happening, okay? Blending mode. In this case, the overlay needs the image to interact with this color. When it doesn't have the color behind it, it just looks like that.
And you'll notice it looks different over here. If I move this in front of everything, which is, it's in front of that text now, but because it's white, it doesn't really do anything. It's like above it. But anyway, um, so yeah, uh, it has to be over the top of some color and I'm gonna say you are gonna stay overlay and you are going to be multiply. Um, again, this is just 'cause I practiced before and don't be afraid again to mess around with the opacity of that. Okay?
So I'm gonna say you're down and I'm gonna get this kind of like overlaid combo thing going. So I can see through the multiply okay to the overlay and it kind of interacts nicely. I like this kind of like little offset thing you saw at the beginning there. Some sort of like, again, kind of retro 3D thing. Misprint misregistration, okay? When you're doing kind of physically print, when they don't quite line up, I dunno, it's kind of cool.
There you go. Um, interesting note is that if I double click on this, okay, well let's separate them out. I can go and adjust this. I can double click it, um, to get inside and edit the text. 'cause the text is still editable. You just gotta make sure the image still lines up, which mine does.
So you might end up having to move the letter or the image to kind of move it around. So remember I'm inside in isolation mode. Double click the background to get back out. Okay? Double click into the object to get the text and the image. Okay?
You might wanna line the bike up nicely with the D or G and undo, I want mine back to being a G. There you go. That is how to do blending modes with images and trapping them inside of a letter. Alright, that's it. I'll see you in the next video.