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In any discussion of type and text in Photoshop, it's important to keep one key concept in mind: Photoshop is an image editing program, not a page layout or illustration program, nor is it a word processor. As such, don't think of Photoshop's type handling capabilities as lacking...
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Type in Photoshop is either point type or paragraph type. Point type is added to a document at a specific location (or point) in the image. In contrast, area type (also called paragraph type) fills a portion (or area) of the image...
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Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, July 2005
Discover how to manipulate paths, the key to mastering the shape tools available in Photoshop 6 software.
Photoshop offers four related tools for adding type to an image. The Horizontal Type tool (usually referred to as simply the Type tool), the Vertical Type tool, the Horizontal Type Mask tool, and the Vertical Type Mask tool are shown in their flyout palette...
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As long as type remains part of a type layer, it remains editable. You can return to the type layer at any time and make changes to the character and paragraph characteristics, or edit the text itself. After the layer is rasterized or or the image is flattened, the type can no longer be edited...
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Photoshop's improved Options Bar includes the capability to save tool presets. This is a great way to speed your work with the Type tool. If you regularly use certain fonts at certain sizes, they can be saved as presets in the Tool Presets Picker at the left end of the Options Bar...
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The Character palette can be shown and hidden through the Window menu or a button in the Options Bar when a type tool is active. The palette replicates many of the fields and options available in the Options Bar for type tools...
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Nested by default with the Character palette, the Paragraph palette can be shown and hidden using either the button in the options bar, the command in the Window menu, or with Command-T (Mac) Control-T (Windows) while editing or inputting type...
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While working with the Plastic Wrap filter recently, I discovered an interesting way to make geometric shapes that can be integrated into backgrounds or used to create what my friend and colleague Scott Kelby calls "Euro collages"...
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Here's a rather simple look that incorporates a variety of techniques that you'll find useful in many other projects. You'll see how to make east see-through type, how to apply filters to text, and what you need to do to make filters work with a solid color selection...
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