The Options bar contains a group of options, some (but not all) of which are duplicated in the Character palette. Those options that appear in both places are the most frequently used options. Talk about convenience. Your options(starting after the Tool Preset picker), include :
- Change the Text Orientation: Use this handy button to toggle between vertical and horizontal text orientations. Just select the type layer you’d like to transform and click. This option works with point type and paragraph type, although the results you get from switching the paragraph type to vertical orientation may look odd.
- Font family: Select the font/typeface you want from the drop-down list. If you have more than one version of a particular font family installed on your computer, you’ll find one of these abbreviations after the font name: T1, Adobe Type 1 (PostScript) fonts; TT (TrueType); OT (OpenType); BM (Bit-Mapped).
- Font style: While some fonts can have additional styles, such as light or demi-bold, most other styles are assigned as separate typefaces. Only the styles available for a particular font appear in the list. Some are available only in regular and italic, for example. If a font you want to use doesn’t offer bold or italic styles, you can simulate either or both by choosing a faux style in the Character palette.
- Font size: Choose the size of the text from this list, or type a size in the text box. Generally, text sizes are shown in points because that’s how text is most commonly measured, with 72 points equaling 1 inch. (A 36-point font is 1⁄2-inch in size at 72 ppi.) If you don’t like points, you can switch to millimeters or pixels in the Units and Rulers Preferences dialog box. You might want to use, say, pixels instead of points when creating text for Web graphics. If you’re creating a banner that is 100 pixels tall, you will know that text that is 25 pixels tall will fill 25 percent of that space, for example.
- Anti-aliasing: This list includes four different types of smoothing to use on your text, plus none (which leaves your text unsmoothed). Some kinds of anti-aliasing are better for text that will be displayed at smaller sizes.
- Text alignment: Three buttons specify whether Photoshop aligns your Horizontal Type tool text left, center, or right. When you use the Vertical Type tool, the buttons rotate 90 degrees clockwise and transform into Top, Center (vertically), and Bottom choices.
- Text color: Click in this box to select a color for your text from the Color Picker.
- Create warped text: This option lets you warp and bend text by using 15 different types of distortion. When used with Paragraph type, the bounding box warps on-screen, too, so you can see how the paragraph is changing.
- Toggle Character and Paragraph palettes: Click this button any time a type tool is active to show or hide the Character and Paragraph palettes.
- Cancel: Click this button (or press the Esc key) to cancel the text entry you’re making.
- Commit: Click this button to apply the text to a type layer.
- Change the Text Orientation: Use this handy button to toggle between vertical and horizontal text orientations. Just select the type layer you’d like to transform and click. This option works with point type and paragraph type, although the results you get from switching the paragraph type to vertical orientation may look odd.
- Font family: Select the font/typeface you want from the drop-down list. If you have more than one version of a particular font family installed on your computer, you’ll find one of these abbreviations after the font name: T1, Adobe Type 1 (PostScript) fonts; TT (TrueType); OT (OpenType); BM (Bit-Mapped).
- Font style: While some fonts can have additional styles, such as light or demi-bold, most other styles are assigned as separate typefaces. Only the styles available for a particular font appear in the list. Some are available only in regular and italic, for example. If a font you want to use doesn’t offer bold or italic styles, you can simulate either or both by choosing a faux style in the Character palette.
- Font size: Choose the size of the text from this list, or type a size in the text box. Generally, text sizes are shown in points because that’s how text is most commonly measured, with 72 points equaling 1 inch. (A 36-point font is 1⁄2-inch in size at 72 ppi.) If you don’t like points, you can switch to millimeters or pixels in the Units and Rulers Preferences dialog box. You might want to use, say, pixels instead of points when creating text for Web graphics. If you’re creating a banner that is 100 pixels tall, you will know that text that is 25 pixels tall will fill 25 percent of that space, for example.
- Anti-aliasing: This list includes four different types of smoothing to use on your text, plus none (which leaves your text unsmoothed). Some kinds of anti-aliasing are better for text that will be displayed at smaller sizes.
- Text alignment: Three buttons specify whether Photoshop aligns your Horizontal Type tool text left, center, or right. When you use the Vertical Type tool, the buttons rotate 90 degrees clockwise and transform into Top, Center (vertically), and Bottom choices.
- Text color: Click in this box to select a color for your text from the Color Picker.
- Create warped text: This option lets you warp and bend text by using 15 different types of distortion. When used with Paragraph type, the bounding box warps on-screen, too, so you can see how the paragraph is changing.
- Toggle Character and Paragraph palettes: Click this button any time a type tool is active to show or hide the Character and Paragraph palettes.
- Cancel: Click this button (or press the Esc key) to cancel the text entry you’re making.
- Commit: Click this button to apply the text to a type layer.
Using Type Options Bar in Photoshop
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