Adobe Photoshop 5: Text

Adobe Photoshop 5: Text

Although Photoshop 6 and 7 have really creative text effects with the introduction of the Warp and Liquefy Tools, Photoshop 5 is rather limited in what you can do to manipulate text.

To add text to your image select the Type tool

2. Click where you want the text to appear

3. In the pop up menu that appears, choose the font and specify a size. The colour is determined by the foreground colour that you have selected.

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4. If your text is to be horizontally aligned:

enter the values for leading and spacing, plus a style and alignment for the type

type the whole text in the Text box, pressing Enter for each separate line

check the Show Font and Size boxes at the bottom of the window if you want to see how your text will appear on the image.

Click OK

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Deselect Size when working with very large font sizes, as the word may not be visible in the Preview window

5. If your text is to wrap around the image:

in the text box type only the first letter of the word or words you want

click OK

repeat this with each letter of the word(s) to place them on separate layers automatically

select each layer in turn and re-align individual letters using the Move Tool

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