Working with clipping masks

I am unsure if this is a question regarding Photoshop or Illustrator but can anyone offer guidelines on how this image was created for the text to be behind part of an image but not all? Example image attached.

Gmez, you made a B&W layer on top, clipped to your text. So the B&W only shows up where the text is. I think it actually looks good, but it's not what you were intending to do. There are a couple of ways to do it. An easy way is to just rasterize your text layer, then put a mask on it (not a clipping mask) and paint out what you don't want. But this method is destructive, so if you want to change the type later you're SOL. For this, considering that you want the background desaturated anyway, I would just duplicate the base layer, put it on top, put a layer mask on it, and paint out the background so the text pops through where you want. It involves a little more masking, but if you do it that way then you can just put a desaturation layer below it, and now your foreground will be fully saturated and cover the text, while the background is desaturated.
Edit - scratch that, I guess you can put a layer mask on a text layer without rasterizing it. Learn something new every day. Just do that, paint out (with black) whatever you don't want on the text layer mask.
As to the desaturation. Try using an adjustment layer instead. It's non-destructive (you can reverse or alter it later) and takes less space in your final file (good practice for later when things get more complicated). Click on the bottom layer, then add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, and move the saturation down. Now on the mask on that layer, paint the foreground black to bring back the color. There are better ways to get black and white (that give you more control over your contrast and 'colors'), but hue/saturation is a good first step.
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THanks for that, but to be honest I am a real novice - learning in pieces - so am not sure how to check path modes etc. ..Any suggestions??
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Thanks for replying but unfortunately that did not help!
I always select with the solid selection tool ^^ infact when i want to select everything i just use command+a.
Anyway, I'm still unable to group or copy the entire picture without the clipping mask releasing..

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