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Inverted Clipping Mask / Knockout Mask…
I’ve never had much use for clipping masks, it just seems much easier to create a layer mask, or if at all possible, a vector mask, instead. However, one thing I’ve always wondered is if there was any way to do a inverted clipping mask, or a “knockout mask”. I often need to have something like a rectangle of pixels with text in them knocked out (alpha’ed). Using just two layers: a shape layer and a text layer, is there any way of accomplishing this? In the past I’ve simply converted the text into a shape, and then used that to create a vector mask for the shape layer. But this can get combersomb after a while, is there anything more efficient?
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In case anyone, like me, stumbles upon this because they have the same question. I just found the answer:
- Place text above rectangle
- Open Blending Options of text (by double clicking the layer or right click->blending options)
- Under Advanced Blending you’ll find the “Knockout” option:
- Set that to shallow (to knockout just the layer below)
- or deep (to knockout everything until it reveals the background layer)
- Reduce the fill opacity to 0%
done! Hope that can help someone 🙂
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This is HUGE! I have no idea what this webpage is but I just had to create an account just to reply to this.
Thank you so much! 🙏🏼
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