G'day, I'm Melissa Shanhun here from digital scrapbooking
HQ.com and today we're continuing our ABC's of PSE
series today We're in Photoshop elements and we're looking at
the letter T the type tool so the type tool in Photoshop
elements is often referred to as a text too, because
basically people think about it as a tool for adding text, but
technically, it is called the type tool so. When you click on
the type tool or you press the letter T you are given several
options here now, the first thing that you're probably
inclined to do is click on your page and start typing. This is
a great option, but it only gives you one line of text. So
what I mean by that is that if you keep typing your text will
go on and on forever unless you do a hard line break or press
return, which is totally fine. Time you can do that, but
there's another way to create a text box. Instead of a line of
time you can click and drag to create a text box and then as
you add more text, the as you keep typing the text will flow
to the shape of the text box and you can resize it as you
need to when you're resizing. There's a couple of things to
note. When you double click on your Type and you go into the
type tool you can resize the box. This is resizing just the
box you can see. Here there's a little plus in this corner here
that is because we have overflowed Type. So when you
have Type that's overflowed you get this little box now a
little tip for you. If you've got overflowing Type and you
want to add it to another text box. Here's a tip control shift
and to select all the text. then you can press control X or
command x on the Mac to cut the rest of the text from the text
box. Then you can paste it into a brand-new Text box. It's kind
of a little way to hack. If you need to create a textbook now,
if you are using the type tool and you finish typing and then
you resize, you'll notice that your text here is getting
whooped. You can choose to constrain proportions and then
whenever you resize it it'll stay in proportion. It'll just
change the size of the font here now it's eighty-three
points, but if you are trying to resize the actual text box
and not the text itself, you need to double. Click and make
sure you're using the type tool another way to do that is just
click on the type tool and click within that text box. So
in terms of the features of the type tool you can change your
font. you can change your font size change it to bold or a
metallic. If your font has those features you can change
the leading, which is the space between the lines of text. It's
called letting because originally back in the day of
the printing press the space. Between the lines of Type was
in fact, lead, you can change the tracking, which is the
space between each letter and you can either type numbers
into the box or you can use a scrubbing action left or right
with your mouse on the label, you can do that with most
things you've also got your standard bold it metallic
underline and those are kind of generated by Photoshop rather
than using a fun. So, for example, if. I've already got
the bold font Type selected and then I click bold It will add
on more boldness. This one has a metallic let's zoom in so you
can see it. but if I keep regular and then I click
metallic. it's just going to warp the Type does that make
sense. There's a couple more features here that I'll just go
through quickly. You've got your left center and right
justification and you can change the text orientation and
you can walk the text into a numb. Of different styles as
well, I always leave an alias on an alias just uses shades of
gray around the edge of your letter or shades between your
type color and your background to make it have a smooth look.
But if you're working with graphics, for example for the
web and they're very small, you may want to turn them off. So
that's basically everything to cover in the too options for
the top. Tool But as you can see there's a few other text
tools we've got the vertical Type too. The vertical Type too
has basically all the same features as the regular type
tool, which is you know, technically the Horizontal Type
too the Horizontal Type Mask too. So this is quite handy. If
I, for example, let's just add a new layer and I'm going to
fill it with that. then I'm going to use my Horizontal Mask
or. You need to do is set up your text, however, you'd like
it to look type in whatever you want masked and then when you
click the green tick or check your Type becomes a mask or a
selection, and you can move that around and do with it.
Whatever you'd like to you can go back and edit your text,
which is better than just creating a selection from a
regular Horizontal top layer you can. Click on the thumb now
on any layer to select that layer, but if you do that of
course, your selection is set and you can't go in and edit it
like you can with the Horizontal Mask Type too. So if
I drag a photo in here, turn those layers off and then we
can then use the Horizontal Type Mask to create a mask of
Lucy's name. and then we have this little selection on this
layer, which we can then move around with the. Selection tool
here we could say paint with the brush we could fill it. We
could use that selection to we could cut out the text with
that selection. We could even say we could even use that
selection to create a layer mask, which can be a fun
effects. but probably not for this photo. We can just press
delete. So now you can see that this. A second Lucy is just
simply a whole and whatever's going on in the layer below you
can see through to it. so that's basically how you would
use. The type tool with the mask feature the vertical Mask
is just the same but vertical. so let's take a look on at text
on a selection when you use the text on a selection tool, you
can draw your selection or you can use any layer of your photo
and just press control to select the outline of the layer
and then I'm going to start my text. so wherever I move my
mouse and you can see that curvy. Line That's where my
text will start and let's change the color of that font,
so we can see it and then I can use my control. Key and then
drag the text wherever I'd like it to go. I can drag the ending
spot you can resize as usual and now I've got the text that
goes around the path the next text or Type too. we're going
to look at is text on a shape. We can choose from a number of
preset shapes here to easily create Text on a shape. Let's
draw our heart here and then we can mouse over until we see
the. Icon with the bar and the wave and that when we click
there that is where our text will be, we can continue to
Type all the way around our shape. Now. If we want to alter
where the text goes, we can hold down our control key and
we can drag the top left or right or up or down depending
on your exact shape to decide if it's going to be inside the
shape or outside and then we can also drag it. Around
holding down the control key to get it to start where we want
it, We can also use our control key to drag.
The end of the text. We can always make our top a little
bit larger to make it easier to see you don't want to go too
large, though, but you won't get very much around the
outside of your shape. Now when you finish working with your
layer and you click the green. Check mark your shape will be
gone. It will disappear. You can also use any shape in your
custom shape tool. Once you've drawn the shape, Click back on
the type tool Text on. Shape and then start typing as I've
just shown you with one of the built-in shapes now the
difference is when you do the difference is when you create
your shape first and then add Type to it. you'll end up with
two different layers. So if you don't want the shape to appear,
you simply turn it off. So that's how to use the text on
shape too, but also how you can kind of hack it to use it with
any custom shape. you can learn more. About the custom shape
tool in our upcoming video for the letter U where we will
discuss all the details of the custom shaped tool. Now let's
move on to the final too. In our Type too Selection, there
are seven tools so this video is a bit longer than usual.
Now. we're going to look at the text on path tool, so we have
two options here. we have the drawer and the modify mode. So
in the draw mode, you simply click and drag to create your
path. Then when you're happy with how it looks, click the
green check. Or as we call it down under and now you can add
your text once again you just mouse over until you get the
eyeball with the curvy line. Click And that's where your
text will begin and as usual, you can use your command on the
mac or control key to adjust the text start point and you
can drag it above or below the line of your part. You can also
go back into text on a path mode and click modify, and then
you can click and drag any point along the path. so these
are bare curves so you can you know adjust this curve shape to
your heart's content. You can also alt or option. Click to
remove a point on your on your path and then when you click
away, it's gone. So let's show you that again, you can use the
text on path tool to create a path. you can then modify that
path by using the modified too, you can add Type by mousy over.
Until you get the eyeball with the curly line and then you can
simply tap your way around any path your heart desires. Now,
of course, it's not as perfect as the pen tool in Photoshop
CC, but it is a perfect option for those of us who want to get
a bit creative with our type in Photoshop elements. So I hope
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