| Photoshop 6 Edit
Text Directly on the Canvas
by Joyce Evans
With Photoshop 6 you can now enter, style, and edit text
directly on canvas. You can see how the text looks in relation
to your image. Even if you rotate, scale or skew the text
remains editable.
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Open a new image, Menu bar
File>New |
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Fill with any color you'd
like, Edit>Fill, foreground (I choose red) |
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As soon as you click this,
look below the menu bar, there is now a context sensitive
bar below. This is the text properties. |
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Click in your document to
place text. From the menu above choose your font, size,
color, and more. |
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Let's take a look at
some of the new options for text. On the left you see
several T's |
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The first one is to reset
tools or reset all tools, the second one is for a text
layer the one next to it for a text mask The next set
of T's is for Horizontal or Vertical Text. I clicked
on the Vertical. *Note* When you first select
the type tool, make your type selections BEFORE you
type your text. Once the type is place the menu changes.
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Another neat tool is the Text
on a Path tool, it has a ton of options. I was able
to choose this option after the text was placed. I highlighted
the text then clicked the icon.  |
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I choose the Arch Upper |
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Something else I observed
about the Text tool. If you want to get back to the
initial menu which has the horizontal, vertical and
masking on it, you will need to select another tool,
then go back and select the text tool again. |
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The other icon is the palettes |
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Some of the other things you
can do is rotate, skew, add different colors to individual
words or characters, and control line breaks. You can
place text in a bounding box and then choose Roman Hanging
text to have the punctuation fall outside of the box.
The new Text tool has a ton more functionality than
ever before. |
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