Need help creating "love" in photoshop

[cmezoom56]

Recently a friend of mine e-mailed a photo of her grandkids. It had the word LOVE and the photo of the boys replaced the letter O. I'd like to duplicate it with a photo of my own. Does anyone know of a tutorial that might help me? I'm a novice to photoshop.

[PomND]

if i understand clearly what you are after.

this tutorial should help

you need to use something called a clipping mask

BioRUST.com :: Tutorials >> Clipping Masks

[cmezoom56]

Here is the picture I want to duplicate with a different photo. I hope the upload worked

[teaking]

I think the above poster is on to something try the clipping mask tutorial they posted, it does look very much like it has been masked.

[PomND]

just seen the image you posted,

that looks to me like they've inserted the image into the text file, moved it to a layer below the text and used a soft edged eraser around the outside to fade it out like that

Hope that helps a bit, either that or the clipping mask will work.

[edbayani]

open the image and double click the background layer in the layers pallette to make it into an ordinary layer. with the oval marquee tool, select the portion of the image that you want to replace the 'O' with. go to select and choose inverse (press ctrl, shift, i) to inverse the selection, that is everything outside the image is selected. then press Q to transform the selection into a quick mask. the dotted lines will be replaced by color. go to filter, gaussian blur and blur the mask according to your liking. then press Q again to exit quick mask press delete or backspace and you will have a selected image with soft edges. deselect. The background will be transparent. if you want a white background, create a new layer and in the layers pallette, drag the new layer to the bottom and fill with white or any color. then choose the type tool and type the letters LVE adjust the type size. go to layers choose rasterize to make the type an ordinarty image layer that you can drag around, separate, and add layer style to emboss, and create drop shadows. remenber to place the text layer on top.
i hope this can help you.

[cmezoom56]

Originally Posted by edbayani

then press Q again to exit quick mask press delete or backspace and you will have a selected image with soft edges. deselect. The background will be transparent. if you want a white background, create a new layer and in the layers pallette, drag the new layer to the bottom and fill with white or any color. then choose the type tool and type the letters LVE adjust the type size. go to layers choose rasterize to make the type an ordinarty image layer that you can drag around, separate, and add layer style to emboss, and create drop shadows. remenber to place the text layer on top.
i hope this can help you.

I was able to follow your directions up to "press Q again ...." I will keep on trying. Thanks so much for the in depth directions!