Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at putting images inside of text... the easy way is, click on 'Fill', go to 'Solid'... pick 'Image', choose an 'image'... and you're done... what we'll do though is, in this video I'll show you a couple of different ways... and I'll show you the difference between Masking and Fill...

we'll put multiple images inside of it, we'll even squeeze a vector in... and we'll look at a couple of things that might catch you out... all right, let's jump in. First up I've brought in some images, bring in anything... I've put some in the Exercise Files, called Water 01, 02, and 03... just to use as examples, but you can use any old image...

and to get the image inside of the text... first of all the text needs to be thick enough... that you can see the image inside of it, that's too thin... who remembers the shortcut to make the weight bigger? Oh, it's handy, it's 'Command Option' and the '>' '<'... that's 'Ctrl Alt >' or '<', here we go.

So we're going to something nice and chunky... also, I'm going to use the K tool to scale my Type, remember that trick? Just get it something proportionate to my image... and the best way in my opinion is to select this... it doesn't even need to be anywhere near it... we're going to use the copy properties, like we learned in the last video...

remember, that's 'Command Option C', or 'Ctrl Alt C'... and then 'Ctrl Alt V', or 'Command Option V' on a Mac... and that will paste it inside that Fill... so that copies the properties... in this case, the Fill, and we'll paste it in here. I'm going to put it inside of a frame so we can actually see it.

The nice thing about this is that it is... changeable, we can delete stuff, we can make it rowdy... can you see, the image changes to fill it in the background... so that's why it's really nice... and the layer structure is really nice, it's just Type with a Fill inside of it... easy, you can adjust it afterwards, at the moment it's set...

it's default to Fill, so it's going to try and cover every part of the Type... sometimes you want a certain part of the image... I'm going to get that out, and I should have made a duplicate at the beginning... we have a white Fill, it's going to be gray, that's okay... "Let's make a couple of copies, Dan."  So we've got this one, let's say that you want a specific part of this image... maybe the top part of it, not the bottom...

actually, let's use this image here... so we don't want it right in the middle here... we want it kind of down the bottom, let's say... so what we're going to do is copy it using our shortcut, then paste it here... what we can do, remember the shortcut from the last one, we can hold down--  how do we get all the extra cropping around the outside? Remember that key we hold down, that we double click, the key is...

oh, you got it, 'Option' on a Mac, 'Alt' on a PC, so just double click it... and now we can see the frame, and we can say... actually, I want to move it around and maybe resize it, holding 'Shift'... so we want the top part of this, we want to try to get the bubbles through... we can resize it in this mode as well, maybe that's what you want... here we go, 'Esc' to get out.

The one thing when you do change it from Fill to--  because at the moment this has got image property of Fill by default... we've changed it by hitting that shortcut to, hit 'Esc'... this one here now has one of Crop, can you see the width and height of it here... the one thing, if I resize it and make it really small, as an example... watch this, if I 'Alt', or 'Option' double click it... can you see what it's done there, it's kind of done this weird crop thing...

I don't know why it does it, but it does... that's one thing to note, you might have to then go through and say... well, this is not helpful, I'm going to copy and paste it in again. So I've undone it, till I got back, the other way you can crop images... we kind of looked at a couple of videos ago, the Fill versus Crop... I'm going to grab this one, let's do it for this image here...

'K' tool, make it nice and big, actually, let's do it to this one here... is you can just select them both and make a mask... I realize - undo - that this needs to be at the back... that's the open, '[' and ']' square brackets, near your P key... send it to the back, select both of them, go to 'Mask'... there's nothing wrong with this way...

other than the Layer panel is a little bit more complicated... I'll show you both of these ways, because you will get other people's work... where they've done it this way and some of them will have done it this way... where there's just this text... and it's just an image inside of it. The reason you do it this way is, there's no real good reason that I can think of...

it is handy when you want to mask more than one thing... because I can say, you, because, let's say I want this one... I want two images inside of it... because it's a nice easy group... you can just say, actually, I want you in there, and actually, you're on top... so now I've got a Mask group, that's my Masking text...

and anything underneath this, we can have lots of things can go inside of it... probably more handy when you've got a vector... let's go, our vector in here, and again, as long as it's... there you go, beautiful, Dan... you can put lots into it... but you can actually, over here, just...

just so you know, you can actually have more than one Fill... and I can say, actually, this one has 'Image', 'Fill'... I'm going to pick an image, I'm going to pick a product, a little car... I'm not going to fill it, I'm going to crop it... because what I want to do is say, kind of, you know, get it in this... there's a little car in it, actually, let's move it around...

by default the extra Fill only gets 20% of Fill color. So you can actually do that same thing... where I've just got some plain old text, it's got two Fills... kind of same as this, it doesn't really matter... but we're going to get used to both of them. So that's masking with text, the takeaway is, just do it this way...

where we copy and paste it in... or you can go the longer way, I don't know, is it longer? 'Fill', 'Image', choose image... stick it inside of there, let's grab this one... if I close that down now there is absolutely no difference... to what we did when we copied and pasted it...

or filled it with an image, we get to the same part... and the best is that this resizes because it's set to Fill... it will resize and keep my image in the background. All right, let's get rowdy... actually, let's finish up, and I'll see you in the next video, bye.