Now select that new group and click the page icon at the bottom of the layers window to create a new layer. Give your unlocked layer a name or leave the default name.Ĭlick the folder icon at the bottom of the layers window to create a new group.
If the layer is locked, unlock it by double clicking on it in the layers window. Start by opening up the image that you’d like to use as your background. Prepare your background image and layers: Below you can watch the video tutorial in its entirety and beneath the video, you can read the written tutorial if you’d like.Ĭan’t view the video? Watch it on YouTube In the image below, you can see how this will look after you’ve finished editing your image.Īs you can see, the effect looks very professional and would look great on a poster, as a caption on an image or anything else that you can think of. In this tutorial I decided to show you how to create transparent text in Photoshop.