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: How to put a new background behind black text that already has a white background? After you all helped me in my previous post with the handwritten text, helping me to erase the parchmnt and

@Dunderdale640

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After you all helped me in my previous post with the handwritten text, helping me to erase the parchmnt and leave the text, I need help now with the next step. Please forgive me if this is simple stuff, I'm new to Photoshop and looked through different posts here but I didn't find what I'm looking for.

So basically, I want to put a scanned picture of parchment behind the text, so that it looks like it was written on this new piece of parchment. What's the best way to do this, without needing to select each and every letter of the text?

This is the black text on a white background:

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@Merenda852

Besides placing the text over a background and using multiply to have it superimpose correctly (as tomtomtom mentions), you might want to add a level of detail and have the writing a bit distorted, where the texture is. Say, there's a crease in the parchment, then it's unnatural if the writing doesn't follow that crease.

Here's how you add a Displacement map to do so.


Apply your texture under your text and multiply the text layer, as
per tomtomtom's answer
Example:
Select all pixels in the texture layer (make sure the texture layer is selected in the layers palette)
Copy (Option / Control+C)
Open a new file (File > New... or Option /
Control+N), and have it have dimensions equal to the
pixels on your pasteboard (that's default, so OK should be, well,
ok.)
Paste (Option / Control+V)
Revert the new file to grayscale: Image > Mode > Grayscale
Example:
Save the new file as a psd
Go back to your original image, and select the layer with the
writing. It might be an idea to convert this layer to a Smart Object, so the filter we're about to apply is a smart filter. This makes tweaking the results easier.
Choose Filter > Distort > Displace... and click OK. The default
settings are ok for now.
Photoshop will ask you to select a psd file. Choose the grayscale
file we made in step 7.
Wait a bit, depeding on your resolution and CPU power.
Example:

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@Sarah814

I'm guessing the text is black and its background is white. Add a level under the one with the scanned text, and place your background texture there. Then select the layer with your text and select Multiply in the layer blend mode (here, don't care about the layers shown it's just a pic I found online)
Then if you want you can also edit a bit the opacity % of the text level to show some of the background texture even on the text.

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