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Graphics.com has a tutorial with plenty of tips on Mastering Clipping Groups in Photoshop:
'Clipping groups are an underused and interesting effect, although just the words "clipping groups" sends fear down the spines of novice and intermediate Photoshop users alike. The concept is really not as hard as it sounds. I will attempt to de-mystify this technique and you will be creating your own clipping groups in a few moments. The best way for me to explain clipping groups is to liken them to looking through binoculars. When you look through binoculars, everything is in a figure of eight shape. There is much more than what you can see, but everything is "clipped" to those lenses. Imagine the binocular lenses are the base layer and the view is the clipped layer. To create a clipping group, you must start with a layer other than a background. This layer must contain a combination of solid and transparent areas. Shape layers and text layers are ideal. This will become our base layer. Anything we apply to this layer as a clipping group will fit into the shape of the base layer. Note that you can combine layer masks with clipping groups for interesting results.'
Posted by Darren in our Tips category on November 24, 2004