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How can I recreate these images ?


IamSam

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Hello and welcome to PSG.

Here's one way to create the first image.

Find a suitable texture.
Find a suitable LA silhouette.

Open both in the same document.

Duplicate the texture layer.
Use a Levels adjustment to to make the bottom one light.
Use a Levels adjustment to to make the top one dark.

Create a new layer and add your text, in this case 2 letters L and A. It doesn't matter what color.
Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 7.58.26 PM.png

Open your LA skyline silhouette, it should be the top (uppermost) layer.
Use your Move Tool and Free Transform to position and size.
Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 7.51.21 PM.png

Turn off your LA text layer.
Turn off your LA skyline layer.

Select/highlight the dark texture layer.

Hold the Cmd/Cntrl key and mouse click the text layers thumbnail. This will make a selection.
Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 11.40.17 PM.png

Hold the Option/Alt + Cmd/Cntrl keys and mouseclick on the LA Skylines thumbnail. This will turn the selection into this.....
Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 8.02.16 PM.png

Now go to LAYER > LAYER MASK > HIDE SELECTION
Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 8.06.43 PM.png

You should now have the effect!
Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 8.05.18 PM.png

Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 8.07.56 PM.png
 

kccam82

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I am Sam

Thanks for the reply. The background isn't a texture.The image is from a tshirt design. Can I still do this process using a regular color background.
 

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I am Sam

Thanks for the reply. The background isn't a texture.The image is from a tshirt design. Can I still do this process using a regular color background.
Yes. I just used the t-shirt texture because it was in your example.
 

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