If you’re image oriented (and why wouldn’t you be if you’re using Photoshop?), you’re probably not planning to include a novella with your graphics. Point type is great for headlines, labels, and similar small amounts of text. You can also use it to create logos and headings for Web pages. The Web is one place that text that isn’t tacksharp can still do the job. Although a Photoshop image is generally not the place you’ll want to insert a whole lot of text, you can add larger blocks of text that are professional and effective. You can modify how point type and paragraph type are displayed by using the Paragraph and Character palettes. To enter point type, just follow these steps:
1. Open a saved image or create a new Photoshop document.
2. Select either the Horizontal or Vertical Type tool from the Tools palette, or press T to select the type tool if the one you want is active.
Hold down the Shift key and press T to cycle through the four available type tools until the one that you want is active. Your cursor looks like an I-beam, similar to one you’d see in a word processing program.
3. Click the area of the image where you want to insert the text.
This is called the insertion point. A small horizontal line about one-third of the way up the I-beam shows where the baseline (on which the line of text rests) will be for horizontal type. If you’ve selected the Vertical Type tool, the cursor is rotated 90 degrees. The baseline is centered in the I-beam and represents the center axis of the vertical column of text you type.
4. Choose any of the type options from the Options bar, Character palette, or Paragraph palette. To access the palettes, click the Character and Paragraph button in the Options bar or choose either palette under the Window menu.
5. Type your text. Press Enter (or Return on the Mac) to begin a new line.
Lines of point type don’t wrap around. When you press Enter or Return, you’re inserting a hard carriage return that doesn’t move. You have to remove hard returns if you want to change the length of the lines you type.
6. When you’ve finished entering the text, click the Commit (the check icon) button in the Options bar.
A new type layer with your text is created. Note the layer that appears in your Layers palette, as indicated by the T icon.
1. Open a saved image or create a new Photoshop document.
2. Select either the Horizontal or Vertical Type tool from the Tools palette, or press T to select the type tool if the one you want is active.
Hold down the Shift key and press T to cycle through the four available type tools until the one that you want is active. Your cursor looks like an I-beam, similar to one you’d see in a word processing program.
3. Click the area of the image where you want to insert the text.
This is called the insertion point. A small horizontal line about one-third of the way up the I-beam shows where the baseline (on which the line of text rests) will be for horizontal type. If you’ve selected the Vertical Type tool, the cursor is rotated 90 degrees. The baseline is centered in the I-beam and represents the center axis of the vertical column of text you type.
4. Choose any of the type options from the Options bar, Character palette, or Paragraph palette. To access the palettes, click the Character and Paragraph button in the Options bar or choose either palette under the Window menu.
5. Type your text. Press Enter (or Return on the Mac) to begin a new line.
Lines of point type don’t wrap around. When you press Enter or Return, you’re inserting a hard carriage return that doesn’t move. You have to remove hard returns if you want to change the length of the lines you type.
6. When you’ve finished entering the text, click the Commit (the check icon) button in the Options bar.
A new type layer with your text is created. Note the layer that appears in your Layers palette, as indicated by the T icon.
Entering Text in Point Type Mode
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