Post by raguslive on May 16, 2015 8:41:11 GMT
I am creating an image with a few graphics and a lot of text. I want the text and graphics to be a particular color/texture, which I am accomplishing by 'place'-ing the desired texture as the highest layer and setting it to "lighten" (since my text is black and my background is white).
However, I would also like this text to have a drop-shadow.
By setting my top texture layer to lighten, it also lightens the drop-shadow. This does not produce the desired effect.
I have made other image like this by manually selecting each individual letter of each individual word, clicking 'invert selection', and then deleting the negative space from my desired overlay layer; but with this particular image I would probably still be clicking letters by the time anyone responded to this...
So, is there a way to select all the pixels of a layer while omitting the negative space of that layer, so that one could then "cookie cutter" the selected layer out of a different layer? Or is there perhaps a whole other procedure for accomplishing my desired effect?
However, I would also like this text to have a drop-shadow.
By setting my top texture layer to lighten, it also lightens the drop-shadow. This does not produce the desired effect.
I have made other image like this by manually selecting each individual letter of each individual word, clicking 'invert selection', and then deleting the negative space from my desired overlay layer; but with this particular image I would probably still be clicking letters by the time anyone responded to this...
So, is there a way to select all the pixels of a layer while omitting the negative space of that layer, so that one could then "cookie cutter" the selected layer out of a different layer? Or is there perhaps a whole other procedure for accomplishing my desired effect?
