Help recreating this text effect

[Khyber]

Hey all me again, long time no post lol. But today I need help recreating this text effect for a client. He saw this poster and wanted me to recreate this effect with the pictures I took of his car. I’m having trouble getting the smaller text of “kills” to just pick up the background image and not the larger text like the picture provided shows. Any help would be much appreciated 

[Khyber]

I figured it out had my blending mode wrong lol

[GarryP]

To help other people who are looking to achieve the same effect, it might be good if you can give more details about what you did to achieve it.

[G13RL]

I don't know how OP did it, but I would group smoking and kills, set the kills blend to "Erase". Then I would duplicate kills and remove the fill from the copy while outlining it and setting its blend to "normal".

[loukash]

9 hours ago, Khyber said:

getting the smaller text of “kills” to just pick up the background image and not the larger text

3 hours ago, G13RL said:

I would group smoking and kills, set the kills blend to "Erase". Then I would duplicate kills and remove the fill from the copy while outlining it and setting its blend to "normal".

That will work, if rasterizing on export is not an issue, e.g. for web.

If you want to keep the text as vector on export, I'd go e.g. via symbols and boolean compound:

(Side note: I just noticed a bug with boolean compound not updating text attributes. Reported here.)

Edited February 28 by loukash
bug report link

[loukash]

10 minutes ago, loukash said:

symbols

Note that to have different text fill/stroke attributes, you must temporarily unsync the symbol. Partially synced symbols are marked by the dashed orange line in the Layers panel.