Clipping Groups By Lesa Snider King:

From an article at iStock.com.

Here’s a fun, neat little effect that, surprisingly, doesn’t seem too overdone. It’s called creating a clipping group, and all it takes is an image and a word in which you want to bring that image through.

Open the image, double-click the background layer and rename it to make it editable. Then, create some text by clicking on the Type tool in the main toolbar (looks like a big T), and type a word. It doesn’t matter what color your text is, but do use a big, sans serif font. Move the type layer *below* the image layer. If you don’t do this, the technique won’t work. Hold down the Option key (PC: Alt) and click between the two layers. The cursor will morph into two over-lapping, black and white circles; that’s when you click.

At this point you can click back on your type layer and move it around with the arrow tool to your heart’s content.

Lesa Snider King, The Graphic Reporter, is iStockphoto’s Chief Evangelist.