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in this tutorial I'm going to show you , how to create a stencil cutout effect , using little-known professional , technique they will allow you to edit , the text and change the font at any time , stick to the end of the tutorial so that , you can see how else you can use this , must-know technique in this document we , have background lay era gradient map , applying a color effect white , rectangle and a text layer , I'vie seen many tutorials where they use , layer masks for this effect , and even though visually you get the , results that you are looking for this is , not an efficient way of working because , you cannot make changes unless you redo , the mask a more professional and , efficient way of doing it is to use this , little-known command that you might have , not even heard of before double click to , the side of the layer to bring up the , layer style dialog in the center of this , window you will sea drop down you , probably have never noticed before the , knock out let me know in the comments if , this was the first time that you noticed , it or if you knew about it , if you change the knock out to shallow , and bring the fill opacity to zero you , will notice that you can now see the , background image the problem is that we , cannot see the color effect from the , gradient map this is because the shallow , knock out creates sort of a hole that , punches through all the layers below but , if we put the text and rectangle into a , group by selecting both impressing , ctr-g the shallow knockout will only , punch a hole through the layers in the , group revealing a gradient map color , effect because that layer is outside of , the group this allows you to work , non-destructively , so this means that this is an editable , type layer so you can change the text , and you can change the font here's , another way in which use this effect , this actually comes from a more in-depth , tutorial where Explain further how , knock out works there's a link to it , down below let me know in the comments , if you plan to use this technique for , text effects or photo effects or what , you're already using it for don't forget , to subscribe and to click on the bell to , join the notification squad so that you , don't ever miss any new tutorials thank , you so much , I'll talk to you again soon.
