I'm Linda Sattgast. And here's how I made the decisions for my Clipping Mask Magic design. When you look at the photos, masks, papers and artistic elements you have to work with, generally one thing or another stands out as a good place to start. I was drawn to these last three photos, especially beach number three. When it came to the mask, though, I immediately knew which one I wanted: the square one. I decided to create a 4 x 4 inch square document that would fit the mask well. So I'm going to demo exactly how I went about the process of putting my design together. By this time, you've had plenty of time to learn the basics so I'm not going to give you all the step by step instructions in this video, such as how to create a new document or how to resize a photo, I'm just going to do it. These are skills you should know quite well by now if you've actually done the projects up to this point. So in this video, I'll add a few comments now and then to clarify what I'm doing. But otherwise, just sit back and relax and join me in my process.

I want to add another word but if I click too close to the first type layer, I won't get a new text layer, it'll just activate the current one. So I'll click further down to create the new text layer. And I'll change the font to Featherly. I'm not going to add a drop shadow to the bird because it looks like it's natural flying up in the sky. If the bird had paper behind it, I would probably add a drop shadow.

I'm going to do Select, Auto Select Layer so I can move the paper without accidentally getting something else that I don't want. And I want to just put this kind of wrinkled part of the paper over the type. Let's add a layer style to the type so we can see it better.

I'd like the stripes to be closer together. So I'll use a side handle on the Transform tool to disproportionately resize the paper. I'll just click and drag down from the side handle. That's getting pretty close. Let's do it one more time. And that looks good right there.

I'll also reduce the opacity a little bit. Let's check out the other image possibilities. This photo looks pretty good with the title and bird but they don't have a strong contrast with the photo.

This one is positioned wrong for the title. Of course, I could change the position of the title but I'm really happy with the original photo. So that's how I made my design decisions. I'm Linda Sattgast with QwikLearn Photoshop Elements.