: How does (clipping) mask in Photoshop work in my specific case This is my basic layer setup: Textlayer Shape Background I want to mask the shape-layer so the parts where the text in the

@Hamm6457569

The answer is very simple, but obscure. As it happens, it doesn't involve clipping masks. :)

Set the text over the shape. Open the text layer Blending Options dialog and set "Fill" to 0 percent, then change the Knockout dropdown to "Deep," which knocks out everything through to the background. This is one of those almost-never-used Photoshop features that comes in handy on the rare occasion that you need it.

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@Kaufman565

You would have to work with Photoshop CS6 I think, I mean there are some new options but I'm not sure how new they are, maybe they've been there for a while and I did not know about them.

Here's how you do it:


Create your text
Right click on the text layer in the layers panel > go to > Convert to Shape.
Draw your shape(that black shape in your screenshot, but when drawn use the "Path Operations" Option, and set it to "Exclude overlapping shapes"


Here's a screenshots that might help, you can see both the result and the option I talk about in (3), but as I said I'm not sure it was available before CS6:

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