Creating a Text Annotation in Photoshop

To create a text annotation, follow these steps:
1. Select the Notes tool in the Tool palette (or just press N).
2. If necessary, change the name in the Author text box in the Options bar.
Just double-click inside the Author text box and start typing.
By default, when you create a note, the name you entered when you installed Photoshop appears as the author of the note. However, you may be working on an image with someone else’s computer, or you may be on the lam and using an assumed name.

Be sure that everyone looking at the file uses a unique name so that you can sort out the various notes and, perhaps, give all of them their proper weight (that is, always do what the boss says, but take Seymour the intern’s comments with a grain of salt).

3. From the Font and Size drop-down lists in the Options bar, choose a font and font size for the text.
Selecting a particular font and size for each author may just be a matter of preference or readability or can be used to further differentiate between authors’ comments. You choose font sizes in relative sizes from Smallest to Medium to Largest so Photoshop can adjust the notes to be readable on monitors set for different resolutions.
4. Click the Color box on the Options bar and select a color for the title bar of each note and the color of its icon when you minimize the note.
Color-coding is a good way to differentiate authors, as well as priorities. For example, you can use Red, Yellow, and Green to indicate relative status of a particular suggestion, or select a color to represent a particular author.
5. Click in the note’s window and type the text you want to enter.

You can use traditional editing commands, such as the Backspace key, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V (Ô+X, Ô+C, and Ô+V on the Mac) to edit the text.

6. When you’re finished entering a note, click the note’s Close box on the right end of the title bar (Windows) or the left end of the title bar (Mac OS).
Photoshop minimizes the note to an icon.