How To: Mask a Photo into a Shape or Text

How To: Mask a Photo into a Shape or Text

This is a super quick + easy tutorial that you can use for wall art, instagram photos, or a profile picture- maybe a shaped sidebar photo for your blog!
For this tutorial I used Photoshop, but you could use a free alternative (like gimp) if you don't have Photoshop.
So, here's how you do it:

1: Open a new file in your editing program with a transparent background. I made mine 800x800 but you can choose your size accordingly.

2: If you're using text, click on the type tool and type whatever you like. I chose a bold font that I'm sort of obsessing over at the moment!

(If you're using a shape use, one with a transparent background)

3: Drag in your photo. Place it to cover your text and hit enter. I'm using a watercolor I did of a galaxy (I'm obsessed okay!)

4: In the layers tab right click your photo's layer, and choose 'create clipping mask'. You should see that small arrow will appear on the left side.

5:Click the new layer button (the page icon at the bottom) and add a blank white layer. Drag it below your text layer. You can make the background whatever color you want, but I liked the way it flowed with my image as white.

Now you're done! 

I hope you guys liked this tutorial!

If you have any questions feel free to ask- I'll be happy to answer!

P.S. I'm working on a new blog design for my own blog AND for the blog my younger sister is starting! Hopefully you guys will be able to see them both pretty soon!

Stay Minty,

-Juli

♥ Free Printables- Calendar + Wall art ♥

Free Printables
( calendar + wall art )

Lately (as in since I could use a crayon) I've been loving making things for my bedroom walls. I print things for them aaallll the time, but here are some graphic-ishy things that I created recently that I thought I'd share with you guys!

The first is a calendar!
 I made it in a few colors for you guys to choose from and here they are: 

Click here to download the green, pink and blue calendar

Click here to download the blue, purple and yellow calendar

And here are two other versions:

Click here to download the all pink calendar
Click here to download the pink, and blue-ish calendar

Oh, and the "Just Pepperminty" Watermarks will be gone if you print, but please don't take credit for them:)

Next, I did a little wall print of a lovely quote from Walt Disney(which you've probably heard from Meet the Robinsons)
Again, there's four different ones to pick from:

Click here to download the blue print
Click here to download the dark pink print

And the other two:


Click here to download the light pink print
Click here to download the purple print
The "Just Pepperminty" mark will be gone when printed, like I explained above!

Sooo, that's all I've got for today! If any of you like these I'll make more prints etc. in the future! Just let me know. I'd love to hear your ideas as well!

I think I'll have a DIY coming soon! And I might do a 'favorites'/'currently' post, because I haven't done one yet!
Talk to you guys later!

Stay minty,
-Juli