 Hello everyone welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. I'm going to show you how to use clipping masks and I'm going to show you step by step and I'm going to go very very quickly so you guys get all the steps and not too much fluff. You'll see here I've got a rectangle and a circle and I have clipped images to these shapes and I'm going to show you how to do that right now. So the first step here open up Photoshop of course then go file new. Once you select new I'm going to go ahead and switch up here to the web and I'm going to create this one here web most common. This doesn't matter whatever size you want to work with is fine by me left click on create. All right cool we've got an art board we're in business guys and gals. The next step is you want to create the shapes that we're going to clip the images to. So I'm going to create a rectangle so I'm going to left click on that rectangle then I'm going to draw out the rectangle and you'll might notice here this silly stuff that's on the side there that's because this is a brand new version it just did an update and it's giving me the info the tool so I've created a nice cool shape here I've got a rectangle or a square it's almost a perfect square. The second thing I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to create an ellipse and I'm going to drag it out I'm going to hold down shift to make sure that it's a proper full circle and boom I've got two shapes now there's a possibility that you guys if you haven't used this tool in a while or if it's on default settings that it is set to fill with white it doesn't the fill color doesn't matter but you want to generally select a color so I'm just going to go ahead and double click on it and you're going to see here that I can select any color I want so let's make this one black just for the just to show you how to do it and also you'll notice one's called rectangle one's called ellipse okay so we've got our two shapes now we're going to start creating the clipping masks now I've got two pictures here to do so the first step I'm going to go into finder and if you're in a computer you'll be able to find it under your explorer windows explorer whatever it's called and now I'm going to go to my pictures drive so basically what you want to do is you want to select the picture this is a picture of my very handsome dog named Kingston and I am I've selected him going to drop it on top of the canvas here boom done now you'll notice that it is not placed it is just above it so the next step is I'm going to drag it into place I'm going to put this over the ellipse or over the the the rectangle part of me and I'm also going to go ahead and increase the size of it so something like this let's go a little bigger than the yeah let's go with something like that and now I'm going to adjust its positioning yeah let's go with something like that okay good I'm going to click off of it I'm going to hit enter that now places the image so the image is now placed onto the artboard however you're going to notice here in the stacking that it is above the ellipse and what I want to do is I want to clip this my doggy to the rectangle so you what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on Kingston here which is the image and I'm going to drag it below the ellipse stacking order matters so I'm going to now create the clipping mask this is the this is the big pic this is the big one guys so what you do is you'll hold down the alt or the option key if you're on a pc when you're above it and then you're going to want to kind of hover in between the two lines and when you do that you're going to see the square and the down arrow that indicates I'm creating a clipping mask I'm going to left click and boom the puppy dog Kingston is now clipped to that rectangle so anything outside of the rectangle is clipped off if I double click on his face here I'm just going to go up if I double click on him I can move him around too so if you don't get it right in terms of where you want the image like let's say I want more of his face unless of his ears you can move up and down just like that finally when you're on the picture if you hit command or control T it allows you to bring back the bounding box so if you want to adjust the size of the image let's say you wanted to have it nice and tight to the edges something like that go ahead and do that you can do that that is a perfect clipping mask now I'm going to do another one here for the for this circle just to show you again in case you didn't catch it the first time I'm going to go ahead and click on my finder I'm going to select my picture drag and drop it onto the photoshop document I'm going to hover boom drop it on top and it's going to load up I don't want to do that I don't care about that so camera raw doesn't matter I'm going to go ahead and move it you see the problem it's already you're going to notice where it's stacked underneath the ellipse so I'm just going to go ahead and make it a bit bigger under what I think the right size will be something like that I'm going to hit enter now obviously I'm glad that it did that because again this is going to show you the importance of stacking orders I'm going to move this stock image now above the ellipse and boom now she's above going to reposition her above it here so this is about where I think it'll be now again I'm going to hold down the alt or the option command over the ellipse I'm going to see you're going to see their square and the down arrow again left clicking on this bang it is now clipped right to the circle this is all you need to know guys thanks for watching tutorial I got a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned cheers