Tool Preset picker Anti-aliasing method Show or hide the Character and Paragraph panel group Text Color Warp Text *If your project requires you to typeset a fair amount of text, it m
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Because editable type automatically appears on its
own layer, it can be edited, moved, transformed,
warped, restacked, etc., without affecting any other
layers You can be very casual about where you
position editable type initially and about which
typographic attributes you choose for it, because
it’s so easy to move and edit
To create an editable type layer:
1 Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical
Type tool (T or Shift-T)
2 On the Options bar, Ado all of the following:
Choose a font family, and from the adjacent
menu, choose a font style A sample of each
font displays on the menu
Choose or enter a font size (you can use the
scrubby slider)
Choose an anti-aliasing method: Sharp
(sharpest), Crisp (somewhat sharp), Strong
(heavier), or Smooth (smoothest) Photoshop
will introduce partially transparent pixels along
the edges of the characters to make them look
smoother With anti-aliasing off (None), the
edges of the type will be jagged; this is the best
option for Web output.B–C
Click an alignment button to align point type
relative to your original insertion point or to
B With Anti-aliasing off, type edges
look jagged.
C With Anti-aliasing on, type edges look smoother.
A The Options bar offers many controls for the type tools.
Tool Preset picker
Anti-aliasing method
Show or hide the Character and Paragraph panel group
Text Color
Warp Text
*If your project requires you to typeset a fair amount of text, it may be more efficient to create the imagery in Photoshop and add the
type in a layout or Web page creation program.
align paragraph type to the left edge, right edge, or center of the bounding box (see also page 345)
Click the Text Color swatch, then choose a
color from the Color Picker or the Swatches panel, or click a color in the document
3 Do either of the following:
To create point type (suitable for a small
amount of text), click in the document to establish an insertion point, then type the desired text You can press Enter/Return to create line breaks, where necessary, to prevent the type from disappearing off the edge of the canvas (You can also move the type later with the Move tool.)
To create paragraph type (suitable for a larger
block of text*), drag a marquee to define a bounding box for the type to fit into, then type the desired text Let the words wrap naturally
to the edges of the bounding box; press Enter/
Return only when you need to start a new para-graph If you prefer to specify dimensions for the bounding box, Alt/Option click in the docu-ment, then enter dimensions in the Paragraph Text Size dialog
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4 To accept the new text, press Enter on the keypad
(not on the main keyboard) or click the Commit
button on the right end of the Options bar
(To cancel the type, press Esc or click the Cancel
button on the Options bar.) Each time you use
the Horizontal or Vertical Type tool, Photoshop
creates a new layer automatically.A–B
Note: Photoshop uses the vector outlines for a
typeface when resizing editable type, when saving
the file to the PDF and EPS formats, and when
outputting it to a PostScript printer Like vector
graphics, editable type outputs at the printer
resolution, not at the file resolution
➤ You can right-click an editable type layer name
and choose a different anti-aliasing method from
the context menu
➤ In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Type, from the
Font Preview Size menu, you can turn font menu
A After typing the first word shown at left, we pressed Enter/Return to start the second word on the next line.
B Editable type layers have a T in the thumbnail
and are named automatically by the first word or
few words of type they contain.
previewing on or off and change the preview size for the Font menu If previewing is on but it’s working too slowly on your machine, turn it off
➤ For documents in Bitmap, Indexed Color, and Multichannel color mode, type appears on the Background, not on a layer, and cannot be edited
➤ If you prefer not to establish new default Options bar settings for your type tool, click or drag with the tool in the document before choosing settings for it
➤ If you place individual phrases, words, or char-acters on separate layers, you’ll be able to move them around and apply effects to them individu-ally If your type layers start to overpopulate, on the other hand, you can periodically delete any layers that you don’t need and gather the ones you do want to preserve into layer groups
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Selecting type
Before you can change the character or paragraph
attributes of type or make any copy changes, you
have to select the characters to be edited You can
edit either all the type on a layer or a series of
sequential characters or words
To select type for editing or style changes:
1 Do any of the following:
To highlight characters for editing, click a type
layer, choose the Horizontal Type tool or
Vertical Type tool (T or Shift-T), click in the
type to create an insertion point, then drag
across characters or words to select them.AFor
other methods, see the sidebar on this page
To select all the type on a layer, and to make the
type controls available on the Options bar, with
any tool selected, double-click the T icon on the
Layers panel (The Horizontal Type tool will also
become selected, if it was the last type tool you
had selected.)
To change the attributes of all the type on a layer
via the Character or Paragraph panel, such as
the scale, tracking, leading, style, or alignment,
simply click the layer (you don’t need to select a
type tool)
2 After performing text edits or after changing the
type attributes via the Options bar, to commit to
the changes, do one of the following:
Click the Commit button on the Options bar
Press Enter on the keypad (not on the main
keyboard)
Click a different tool
Click a different layer
(To cancel your editing changes before
commit-ting to them, click the Cancel button on the
Options bar or press Esc.)
➤ To move type to a different location in the
docu-ment, click the type layer, click the Move tool
or hold down Ctrl/Cmd, then drag the type
➤ To delete selected type, press Backspace/Delete
on the keyboard Or to delete one character at a
time, click with a type tool to create an insertion
point, then press Backspace/Delete
SELECTING TYPE CHARACTERS
To select type for copy editing or restyling, choose the Horizontal Type or Vertical Type tool, then do any of the following:
Select consecu-tive characters
or words
Drag across them Or click
at the beginning of a series of words, then Shift-click at the end
Select consecu-tive words
Double-click a word, then drag (without releasing the mouse)
Select a paragraph
Quadruple-click in the paragraph
Select all the characters in the type object
Double-click the T
thumb-nail on the Layers panel;
or click in the text, then press Ctrl-A/Cmd-A
A Drag across the characters to be selected.
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Recoloring type
To recolor all the type on a layer:
1 On the Layers panel, click a type layer.
2 Do either of the following:
Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical
Type tool, then click the Text Color swatch
on the Options bar
Click the Color swatch on the Character panel.
3 Choose a color in the Color Picker, then click
OK
➤ You can also apply a color, gradient, or pattern
to a type layer via an editable Overlay effect
(see pages 362–364)
To recolor select characters or words:
1 Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical
Type tool.
2 Click in the type to create an insertion point,
then drag across the characters or words to be
recolored.A
3 On the Options bar, click the Text Color
swatch, choose a color in the color picker B or
click a color in the image, then click OK You
can also choose a color via the Color panel or
Swatches panel
A Drag across the characters to be
recolored, then click the Text Color
swatch on the Options bar.
B Choose a replacement color from the color picker.
Changing the font family and font style
Method 1
1. On the Layers panel, double-click a T icon If
you don’t want to change all the selected type, select the characters or words to be restyled
2 On the Options bar or the Character panel,
choose from the Font Family menu, then from the Font Style menu (to show the Character
panel, see the sidebar on page 342)
Method 2
To change the font for all the type on a layer, click the layer without selecting anything, then use the Character panel, as described above
➤ To deal with missing fonts in a file, see page 58
REMEMBER TO USE SMART QUOTES!
To specify that curly typographer’s quotes be used for quotation marks and apostrophes — a basic rule of proper typesetting that is too often ignored — go to Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Type and check Use Smart Quotes Straight quotes should be used only as abbreviations for foot and inch measurements!
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To accept the type, click the Commit button
on the Options bar or press Enter/Return
4. A new Smart Object layer appears on the Layers panel.B
5 To edit the Smart Object, double-click the
Smart Object layer thumbnail If an alert regarding saving changes appears, click OK If the PDF Modification Detected alert appears next,★click “Discard Changes, Preserving Illustrator Editing Capabilities,” then click OK
The embedded file (not the original one) will open in Illustrator You can edit the type or any
of its attributes or effects Save and close the file Your edits will appear in the Photoshop document
➤ To learn more about Smart Object layers, see pages 308–311
Converting type
To convert paragraph type to point type:
On the Layers panel, right-click a type layer
name and choose Convert to Point Text A
return will be added to the end of every line of
type except the last one If the type object
con-tains hidden (overflow) text, an alert dialog will
warn you that the hidden text will be deleted if
you proceed; click OK
➤ We don’t know of a command in Photoshop
that reveals hidden characters (paragraph
returns and the like) We do wish there was one
To convert point type to paragraph type:
On the Layers panel, right-click a type layer
name and choose Convert to Paragraph Text
To reshape the resulting bounding box, follow
the steps on page 346 Be sure to delete any
unwanted hyphens that Photoshop may have
inserted
Importing type from Illustrator
into Photoshop as a Smart Object
If you create type in Adobe Illustrator and then
import it into Photoshop using the method
out-lined below, it will arrive as a Smart Object layer in
Photoshop To edit or restyle the type at any time
in Illustrator, simply double-click the Smart Object
layer When you return to Photoshop, your edits
will appear in the Photoshop document
To import type from Adobe Illustrator as
a Smart Object:
1 In Adobe Illustrator, make sure the type is on
its own layer, then via File > Save As, save the
file in the Illustrator Document (.ai) format
2. Open a document in Photoshop, then do either
of the following:
In Photoshop, use File > Place to import the
Illustrator file; or in Bridge, click the Illustrator
file thumbnail, then choose File > Place > In
Photoshop.
In Illustrator, copy the type by pressing Ctrl-C/
Cmd-C Click in the Photoshop document, then
press Ctrl-V/Cmd-V In the Paste dialog, click
Paste As: Smart Object, then click OK.
3 To scale the type proportionally from its center,
Alt-Shift/Option-Shift drag a corner handle.A
A We used the Place command to import a type object from Illustrator Here, we are scaling it proportionally.
B When we accepted the object from Illustrator, the Smart Object icon appeared in the layer thumbnail.