Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial page 326

Add text
About text
Add text
Text on Shape
Text on Selection
Text on Custom Path
Create and use masked type
You can add text and shapes of different color, styles, and effects to an image. Use the Horizontal Type and Vertical Type tools to create and edit
text. You can create single-line text or paragraph text.
About text
Use the Horizontal Type ( )and Vertical Type ( )tools to create and edit text. The new text you type is entered in a new text layer. You can create
single-line text or paragraph text. Each line of single line text you enter is independent—the length of a line grows or shrinks as you edit it, but it
doesn't wrap to the next line. To create a new line of text, press Enter. Paragraph text wraps within the paragraph boundaries you specify.
Single-line text (top of image) and paragraph text (bottom of image).
You can use the type mask tools (Alt/Option-click the Type tool to change the current tool) to create a selection in the shape of text. You can
then create different effects and cutouts with the text.
Clicking in an image with a type tool puts the tool in edit mode so you can enter and edit text. You must commit changes to the type before you
can perform other operations, like selecting menu commands. The Type tool is in edit mode when you see the Confirm button
button below the text.
Note: When you add text to an image that's in indexed color mode, Photoshop Elements does not create a new text layer. The text you type
appears as masked text.
Add text
1. From the toolbar, select the Horizontal Type tool
2. Do one of the following:
To create a single line of text, click in the image to set an insertion point for the type.
To create paragraph text, drag a rectangle to create a textbox for the type.
The small line through the I-beam marks the position of the type baseline. For horizontal type, the baseline marks the line on
which the type rests; for vertical type, the baseline marks the center axis of the type characters.
3. (Optional) Select type options, such as font, style, size, and color, in the Tool Options bar.
4. Type the characters you want. If you did not create a textbox, press Enter to create a new line.
The text appears in its own layer. To view the layers, in the Expert mode, press F11.
5. Commit the text layer by doing one of the following:
Click the Commit button
Press the Enter key on the numeric keypad.
Click in the image, outside the textbox.
or the Vertical Type tool
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and Reject
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