How to crop text in illustrator

Written by Steve Patterson.

In this tutorial, I'll show you step-by-step how to create a popular "sliced text" effect with Photoshop. And unlike other tutorials that force you to convert your text into pixels before you cut it into slices, you'll learn how to keep your text editable so you can try out different words using the same slices!

To do that, we'll take advantage of two powerful Photoshop features known as smart objects and vector masks.

We'll start by converting the text into a smart object, which keeps it editable. And then we'll cut the text into slices, and shape the slices into any angle we need, using vector masks! Let's see how it works.

Here's a quick design I came up with to show the sliced text effect we'll be creating.

Notice that the word "SLICE" is sliced in half:

The sliced text effect.

Once we've created the initial effect, I'll show you how to edit the text so you c

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