Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 264
Working with type layers, Creating a type selection border, Photoshop, Editing text in type layers
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254 CHAPTER 9 Using Type To show or hide the type bounding box (ImageReady): Do one of the following: • Choose View > Show > Text Bounds. • Choose View > Show Extras. This command also shows or hides selection edges, slices, image maps, text bounds, text baseline, and text selection. (See "Working with Extras" on page 77.) Creating a type selection border (Photoshop) When you use the type tool with the Masked Type option selected, you create a selection in the shape of the type. Type selections appear on the active layer, and can be moved, copied, filled, or stroked just like any other selection. To create a type selection border: 1 Select the layer on which you want the selection to appear. For best results, create the type selection border on a normal image layer, not a type layer. 2 Select the type tool ( ), and click the Masked Type button ( ) in the options bar. 3 Select additional type options, and enter type at a point or in a bounding box. (See "Entering point type" on page 252 and "Entering paragraph type" on page 252.) The type selection border appears in the image on the active layer. Working with type layers Once you create a type layer, you can edit the type and apply layer commands to it. You can change the orientation of the type, apply anti-aliasing, convert between point type and paragraph type, create a work path from type, or convert type to shapes. You can move, restack, copy, and change the layer options of a type layer as you do for a normal layer. You can also make the following changes to a type layer and still edit the type: • Apply transformation commands from the Edit menu, except for Perspective and Distort. (To apply the Perspective or Distort commands, or to transform part of the type layer, you must rasterize the type layer, making the type uneditable.) • Use layer styles. • Use fill shortcuts. To fill with the foreground color, press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or Option+Delete (Mac OS); to fill with the background color, press Ctrl+Backspace (Windows) or Command+Delete (Mac OS). • Warp type to conform to a variety of shapes. Editing text in type layers You can insert new text, change existing text, and delete text in type layers. To edit text in a type layer: 1 Select the type tool ( ). 2 Select the type layer in the Layers palette, or click in the text flow to automatically select a type layer.