Cannot achieve the Artistic Text I am looking for - not sure if this is the place to ask this!

[HollyVGKC]

Hi!

I am attempting to make a design of text with no background.  I have found a font I want to use and happened upon placing it onto a photo.  The text has a "see through drop shadow".  I'd like to keep the image behind just that area, so that the result is the font lettering with the blue and white just showing in that drop shadow part.  I've done masking before, but have no clue on this task!  Is this something I can get help with here?

Thanks all.

[prophet]

Here's how I would do it…
• Duplicate the text
• Convert to curves
• remove "outer" edges of letter shapes
• nest texture into remaining curves layer 

[HollyVGKC]

@prophetThank you, dearly!  I'll give it a try and ring back.

[carl123]

A quick way is just duplicate the black text

Change the original text layer to have a black stroke with no fill colour

Then move that (lower) layer a "few" pixels to the left

But you would need to test it with your chosen font to see how it looks 

 

[HollyVGKC]

That did it Prophet!