Working With Type Layers - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

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Using Type
To show or hide the type bounding box (ImageReady):
Do one of the following:
Choose View > Show > Text Bounds.
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Choose View > Show Extras. This command also
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shows or hides selection edges, slices, image maps,
text bounds, text baseline, and text selection.
(See "Working with Extras" on page 77.)
Creating a type selection border
(Photoshop)
When you use the type tool with the Masked Type
option selected, you create a selection in the shape
of the type. Type selections appear on the active
layer, and can be moved, copied, filled, or stroked
just like any other selection.
To create a type selection border:
1 Select the layer on which you want the selection
to appear. For best results, create the type selection
border on a normal image layer, not a type layer.
2 Select the type tool ( ), and click the Masked
Type button ( ) in the options bar.
3 Select additional type options, and enter type at
a point or in a bounding box. (See "Entering point
type" on page 252 and "Entering paragraph type"
on page 252.)
The type selection border appears in the image on
the active layer.

Working with type layers

Once you create a type layer, you can edit the type
and apply layer commands to it. You can change
the orientation of the type, apply anti-aliasing,
convert between point type and paragraph type,
create a work path from type, or convert type to
shapes. You can move, restack, copy, and change
the layer options of a type layer as you do for a
normal layer. You can also make the following
changes to a type layer and still edit the type:
• Apply transformation commands from the
Edit menu, except for Perspective and Distort.
(To apply the Perspective or Distort commands,
or to transform part of the type layer, you must
rasterize the type layer, making the type
uneditable.)
Use layer styles.
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• Use fill shortcuts. To fill with the foreground
color, press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or
Option+Delete (Mac OS); to fill with the
background color, press Ctrl+Backspace
(Windows) or Command+Delete (Mac OS).
Warp type to conform to a variety of shapes.
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Editing text in type layers
You can insert new text, change existing text, and
delete text in type layers.
To edit text in a type layer:
Select the type tool ( ).
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Select the type layer in the Layers palette,
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or click in the text flow to automatically select a
type layer.