Creating Text with Image Patterns

Effect

How to do it

Fill text with a repeated image

Open the image you want to use to fill the text, click the Background Material box on the Materials palette, click the Pattern tab, and select the image from the drop-down list. Use this background material to create new vector or raster text, or to edit existing vector text.

For existing raster text, paint or fill the text with the background material.

Fill text with one image

Open a copy of the image. Create new text as a selection on the image (on the Text tool’s Tool Options palette's Create As drop-list, choose Selection). Then copy the selection to a new image.