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Step 1 

Open a photo to place inside your text. I used a forest image.

Step 2 

If we look in the layer palette, you can see that we only have one layer at the moment, named 'Background'. This layer contains our image. You need to duplicate this layer and once that is done, you should now have two layers. The original background layer is on the bottom, and a copy of the background layer, which Photoshop automatically named ''layer 1'', is above the original layer. 

Step 3 

For this step, you need to add a blank layer between the two layers that we have already got. To do this without Photoshop automatically adding it above 'layer 1' is to hold ctrl (win) / Command (mac) key and click on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and your new layer should be between the two layers. 

Step 4 

Fill the new layer with white. To do this, go up to the edit menu at the top of the screen and choose fill. This will bring up Photoshop's fill dialog box. Select white for the contents option at the top of the dialog box, then click ok to exit out of the dialog box and that layer will be called 'layer 2'. 

Step 5

Select 'layer 1' in the layers palette so that you can add your text, you will need Photoshop's 'Type' tool from the tools palette. With the type tool selected, go up to the options bar at the of screen and choose whichever front you want to use your for your effect. 

Step 9 

With the type tool selected and your font chosen, click inside your document window and add your text. You can type whatever you chose to, I have just used my name for this technique.  Once you have wrote your text, click on the check mark up in the options bar to accept the text.


Step 10 

I rezise and re-positioned my text with the free transform command. To do this, I pressed ctrl+T (win) / Command+T (Mac) on my keyboard to bring up the free transform box and handles around your text, then I drag any of the handles to resize my text. If you want to resize the text without distorting the look of it, hold down your shift key and drag any of the four corner handles.  

Step 11

Once my text was done the way I wanted it, I moved the type layer below the text in the layers palette. Click on the text layer, then simply drag it down below ''Layer 1''. You should see a thick black line appear between ''Layer 1'' and ''Layer 2'' and the type layer now appears between  ''Layer 1'' and ''Layer 2''.

Step 12 

Click once again on ''Layer 1'' in the layers palette to select it  and text will temporarily dissappear inside the document window now that the image on the ''Layer 1'' is blocking it from the view. 

Step 13 

To create the illusion that the photo is inside the text, we need to use a 'clipping mask'. This will 'clip' the photo on ''Layer 1'' to the text on the layer directly below it. Any areas of the photo that apperars directly avbove the letters will remain visible in the document. The rest of the photo will disappear from view. So I went to Layer>create clipping mask and once that was done, the photo then appears to be inside the text and you're done.