 Hello, everyone. Welcome back another Adobe Photoshop tutorial on this one. I'm going to show you how to intertwine an object or basically text in an object in this case, or some people call this overlapping technique. It's very easy to do. It should only take us two minutes or so. Start your timer. Let's get cracking. We're going to go step by step. All right. So once you've opened up an art board of any size, the first step here is I'm going to go grab my text tool. And we're going to do the same thing I did in the last one. I'm going to type my name in here, Curtis, off we go. And then I'm going to go ahead and just center this. This is a large Latteau bold font. You can use whatever you want, but I want to make it nice and big so you can see it. OK, good stuff. The next step is simple. Go to your Finder on a Mac, your Explorer on a PC, and simply just grab the object that you want to intertwine it with. In this case, it's a long piece of rope here I'm going to use. I'm just going to click on OK and boom, we've placed a rope. Now the rope isn't quite as long as my name here. So I'm just going to go ahead and increase the size a little bit. I'm going to hold down the shift key to make it proportional. It's optional, of course, but there you go. Something like that and bang, I'm going to go ahead and accept that. Now we've got some white outside of the subject here, outside of or object. In this case, what you can do now is go to your left side here, grab the quick selection tool, then go to the top under select subject. You should see it at the top here. You can select device or cloud. I'm going to select cloud and then I'm just going to simply click select subject. And this will do an excellent job selecting the subject or the object that we're working with. Now I'm going to go to the bottom right side and I'm going to go ahead and click on add layer mask. When I do that, we've isolated the rope. We are on our way. All right, the next step here is making sure you're still selected on that layer. I'm just going to right click. There's the thumbnail here, and then there's the mask that we just created. And then outside the mask on the right side of the mask, I'm going to right click and I'm going to convert this into a smart object. The reason why we're doing that is because I'm going to add another mask to it. So there we go. We've gone ahead and converted it, excuse me, into a smart object. OK, the next step is purely optional, but I want to show it to you because it can add quite a bit of production value if this is what you're going for. Selecting on our smart object rope, I'm going to go up here to edit. And then I'm going to go to puppet warp. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to create a couple of pins. I'm just going to create and you'll notice here that I'm placing them pretty close to the middle of the rope. And that's just because I don't want it to be. I don't want it to get like all distended looking or anything like that. But basically, I'm just going ahead and creating a bunch of pins. And now now I've got these pins. I could just make some subtle adjustments. So if I push this pin up a little bit, maybe I'll push this one down a little bit. And then I'll push this one maybe up a little more, etc. We've gone ahead and added in a little bit of a cool little effect where it's kind of like an undulating or wavy work rope part of me, as opposed to just a straight rope. Again, this is purely optional. It's done with the puppet warp. Once that's done, I'm just going to click out here. I'm going to grab my I'm going to apply this. And now we're going to go into the last step here. OK, the last step is very simple. I'm going to go ahead and click on this layer mask button again, making sure I'm selected on the rope or the intertwining object that you're using. Click on add layer mask. And now before I go ahead and paint anything onto this mask, I'm going to click back on the original text here. And I'm going to hold down the command key on a Mac. Control key on a PC. And I'm going to just left click on the text or right here on the thumbnail. And when I do that, when I zoom in, you're going to see that it's selected the text for me. The reason why we're doing that is because when I paint in the intertwining, I can now only paint in those lines. So if I start painting outside the lines, it won't matter. So now I'm going to click back on the top layer. I'm going to go to the left side. I'm going to grab a brush. I'm going to make sure that my foreground is black. And now watch this. I'm just going to paint out. And if I paint all over the place, I've got my finger down here. It doesn't matter because we're in the lines and only in the lines. So there we go. This one's under. This one will go over. This one will go under. This one will go over. This one will go under and over and then under. And then if we zoom out and take a look, this is a perfectly intertwined actually I'll select deselect. This is a perfectly intertwined piece of work here, guys. That's how you do it. Thanks for watching.