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Summary: Using the text tool in Adobe Photoshop is an important part of the image editing process, get a tutorial in this free video.
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Daniel Kallenberger Daniel Kallenberger is a teacher at a technical college., teaching animation and visual arts, including Photoshop. He also worked for a major local affiliate ... read more
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Questions & AnswersMy name is Dan Kallenberger. I am an instructor at a technical college teaching Visual Communications and Photoshop as well as other Adobe products. I am going to be showing you Photoshop CS2 today. We’re going to use the text tool now to show you a lot of different options with text. The text tool is the T. You can have horizontal, vertical and you can do outlines. There’s not a whole lot of use for this unless you’re putting images inside of text. So the standard horizontal text tool, you want to also turn on the dialog box or text and that is located in this upper portion of the tool bar for text. You can also choose your fonts. You’ll get your standard windows fonts and you can install those in your windows folder. But you’ll go through and what we’ll do is click down once and that’ll become the text tool the first word that you’re going to use. We can change the color of the font, we can click down the check box, we can also enlarge the text either with Ctrl T, which is a neat tool that you can quickly do it or you can highlight the text. With Photoshop you can simply drag the text over the T tool next to the size the font size and use this as a dial. You can also change the spacing of the letters so the letter spacing. You can also move the text while it’s highlighted. With this tool if you go down below the text or above the text, you can move text. You can turn it again this way. You can also add the italicize; you can do all caps. You can also with Photoshop CS starting with that one you can actually highlight the font and you can put down your down arrow and you can see all your fonts and how they look in the word you’re picking so you can actually go through that. Depending on the speed of your computer, you can do that rather quickly and seeing what exact font you’d want to use. I’m going to turn off the bold tool but then you click down and say ok. If we wanted to use the vertical type tool, you can also choose that. Over in layers, you double click the text you can get so you can highlight all of your text. I’m going to actually change the spacing of that and pick a different font so that one works a little bit better. That is the text tool and vertical and horizontal text.
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