Clipping Group...CS2 Question

[OFD678]

I am working on a project from Scott Kelby's book, Classic photoshop effects.

On Step 4 i am suppose to add a clipping group (CTRL - G).

Basically I am making a "Gift card" and I am adding a picture in one of the sections. What it is suppose to do is clip away the picture I don't want to see on the outline.

I don't know how to do a screen shot to show you what it is.

Pretty murky waters, unless someone has this book.

I know how to copy the screen (print screen), just don't know where or how to paste it.

Thanks
Brent

[Diana]

Hi Brent,

Go to www.pixentral.com (http://www.pixentral.com) and upload your screen print. Then at the bottom of the uploaded image, it will give you the URL to paste into your thread here in the forum. Hope this helps.

Diana

[graficalicus]

I've got the book - which one is it?

For a clipping group, choose the layer above the "clip" - for example, you've got text and you want to put an image inside the letters.

Put the image on the layer above the text, and make it the active layer - press <Ctrl>+<G> and the letters of the text will "clip" the image -

The same should hold true for putting a card image inside a template -

[seebee]

I don't know if this'll help or just confuse things, but I know someone who was having a problem with clipping groups with CS2 when she upgraded from CS. She was having problems using some old templates, and she hunted on the internet & found these instructions on photoshopsupport.com, which worked for her:

"If you're used to the old Command-G (PC: Control-G) shortcut to clip the layer you're on into the layer beneath, then you're going to have some frustrating times in CS2. That's because Command-G (PC: Control-G) now creates a Layer Group, not a clipping group (or clipping mask as Adobe renamed it in CS).

To create a clipping mask, you have to use the old shortcut from pre-CS versions of Photoshop, which is to the hold the Option key (PC: Alt key) and in the Layers palette click once right between the two layer (your cursor will change to two overlapping circles-that's your cue to click). You unclip them the same way."

[OFD678]

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1pWToD4MZPn5gNcdDPi6kmbwUV1PS1

This is the project. Graffi...Gift card page 86.

I did not figure out the clipping stuff, instead I just used the selection and then inverted it to get rid of the picture "outside the card"

I'll try to make a screen shot really quick and post it.

In the book it shows a shadow that drops back onto the ground. Not sure what to call it, but it makes it look like the card is standing with a cast shadow. I have seen it done before, but can't recall how it is done.

Chris, That is how I made clips in Elements. I tried that and it did not work. Thanks.

Obviously it is something wrong I am doing, probaly not the book or my program. I
Thanks
Brent

[Pauline]

for cs2 unless you changed the short cut to ctrl + G I believe you also have to add another letter not sure if it's alt or shift -- probably alt, or what you'll end up with is the layers grouped into a folder. That threw me off in the beginning and I went into the preferences and changed the short cut to ctrl + G like I was used to using. The other choice is to put your curser between the two layers and alt click to group then together.

[OFD678]

I'll try Diane's suggestion also. I did see it was putting a group up, but wasn't clipping the shot outside the card.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1WLnUz6N4UTTc7uFstD0kTGbTZNovX

Thanks
Brent

[graficalicus]

In the book it shows a shadow that drops back onto the ground. Not sure what to call it,

"cast shadow", as in cast by the sun or a light source of some sort.

Looks like you got it - well done!

[OFD678]

I did get it done, but not with the clipping group. I'll have to read up on that and see what I did wrong.

Thanks

brent