Using Type; About Type; Creating Type - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

Chapter 9: Using Type
T ypography gives visual form to language.
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady
let you add type to images with flexibility
and precision. You can create and edit type directly
on-screen (instead of in a dialog box) and quickly
change the font, style, size, and color of the type.
You can apply changes to individual characters
and set formatting options for entire paragraphs,
including alignment, justification, and word-
wrapping. You can create designs that include
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type (if you
have the correct system software installed on
your computer).

About type

Type consists of mathematically defined shapes
that describe the letters, numbers, and symbols of
a typeface. Many typefaces are available in more
than one format, the most common formats being
Type 1 (also called PostScript fonts), TrueType,
and OpenType.
When you add type to an image, the characters
are composed of pixels and have the same
resolution as the image file—zooming in on
characters shows jagged edges. However,
Photoshop and ImageReady preserve the vector-
based type outlines and use them when you scale
or resize type, save a PDF or EPS file, or print the
image to a PostScript printer. As a result, it's
possible to produce type with crisp, resolution-
independent edges.

Creating type

You can create horizontal or vertical type
anywhere in an image. Depending on how you
use the type tool, you can enter point type or
paragraph type. Point type is useful for entering a
single word or a line of characters; paragraph type
is useful for entering and formatting the type as
one or more paragraphs.
Type entered as point type (top) and in a bounding box.
When you create type, a new type layer is added to
the Layers palette. In Photoshop, you can also
create a selection border in the shape of the type.
Note: In Photoshop, a type layer is not created for
images in Multichannel, Bitmap, or Indexed Color
mode, because these modes do not support layers.
In these image modes, type appears on the
background and cannot be edited.
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