ptg 336 Chapter 20 Creating editable type Because editable type automatically appears on its own layer, it can be edited, moved, transformed, warped, restacked, etc., without aecting any other layers. You can be very casual about where you position editable type initially and about which typographic attributes you choose for it, because it’s so easy to move and edit. To create an editable type layer: 1. Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical Type tool (T or Shift-T). 2. On the Options bar, A do all of the following: Choose a font family, and from the adjacent menu, choose a font style. A sample of each font displays on the menu. Choose or enter a font size (you can use the scrubby slider). Choose an anti-aliasing method: Sharp (sharpest), Crisp (somewhat sharp), Strong (heavier), or Smooth (smoothest). Photoshop will introduce partially transparent pixels along the edges of the characters to make them look smoother. With anti-aliasing o (None), the edges of the type will be jagged; this is the best option for Web output. B–C Click an alignment button to align point type relative to your original insertion point or to B With Anti-aliasing o, type edges look jagged. C With Anti-aliasing on, type edges look smoother. A e O p t i o n s b a r o e r s m a n y c o n t r o l s f o r t h e t y p e t o o l s . T o o l P r e s e t p i c k e r T e x t O r i e n t a t i o n F o n t F a m i l y F o n t S t y l e F o n t S i z e A l i g n m e n t A n t i - a l i a s i n g m e t h o d Show or hide the Character and Paragraph panel group Text Color W a r p T e x t *If your project requires you to typeset a fair amount of text, it may be more ecient to create the imagery in Photoshop and add the type in a layout or Web page creation program. align paragraph type to the left edge, right edge, or center of the bounding box (see also page 345). Click the Text Color swatch, then choose a color from the Color Picker or the Swatches panel, or click a color in the document. 3. Do either of the following: To create point type (suitable for a small amount of text), click in the document to establish an insertion point, then type the desired text. You can press Enter/Return to create line breaks, where necessary, to prevent the type from disappearing o the edge of the canvas. (You can also move the type later with the Move tool.) To create paragraph type (suitable for a larger block of text*), drag a marquee to dene a bounding box for the type to t into, then type the desired text. Let the words wrap naturally to the edges of the bounding box; press Enter/ Return only when you need to start a new para- graph. If you prefer to specify dimensions for the bounding box, Alt/Option click in the docu- ment, then enter dimensions in the Paragraph Text Size dialog. ptg Type 337 4. To accept the new text, press Enter on the keypad (not on the main keyboard) or click the Commit button on the right end of the Options bar. (To cancel the type, press Esc or click the Cancel button on the Options bar.) Each time you use the Horizontal or Vertical Type tool, Photoshop creates a new layer automatically. A–B Note: Photoshop uses the vector outlines for a typeface when resizing editable type, when saving the le to the PDF and EPS formats, and when outputting it to a PostScript printer. Like vector graphics, editable type outputs at the printer resolution, not at the le resolution. ➤ You can right-click an editable type layer name and choose a dierent anti-aliasing method from the context menu. ➤ In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Type, from the Font Preview Size menu, you can turn font menu A After typing the rst word shown at left, we pressed Enter/Return to start the second word on the next line. B Editable type layers have a T in the thumbnail and are named automatically by the rst word or few words of type they contain. previewing on or o and change the preview size for the Font menu. If previewing is on but it’s working too slowly on your machine, turn it o. ➤ For documents in Bitmap, Indexed Color, and Multichannel color mode, type appears on the Background, not on a layer, and cannot be edited. ➤ If you prefer not to establish new default Options bar settings for your type tool, click or drag with the tool in the document before choosing settings for it. ➤ If you place individual phrases, words, or char- acters on separate layers, you’ll be able to move them around and apply eects to them individu- ally. If your type layers start to overpopulate, on the other hand, you can periodically delete any layers that you don’t need and gather the ones you do want to preserve into layer groups. ptg 338 Chapter 20 Selecting type Before you can change the character or paragraph attributes of type or make any copy changes, you have to select the characters to be edited. You can edit either all the type on a layer or a series of sequential characters or words. To select type for editing or style changes: 1. Do any of the following: To highlight characters for editing, click a type layer, choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical Type tool (T or Shift-T), click in the type to create an insertion point, then drag across characters or words to select them. A For other methods, see the sidebar on this page. To select all the type on a layer, and to make the type controls available on the Options bar, with any tool selected, double-click the T icon on the Layers panel. (e Horizontal Type tool will also become selected, if it was the last type tool you had selected.) To change the attributes of all the type on a layer via the Character or Paragraph panel, such as the scale, tracking, leading, style, or alignment, simply click the layer (you don’t need to select a type tool). 2. After performing text edits or after changing the type attributes via the Options bar, to commit to the changes, do one of the following: Click the Commit button on the Options bar. Press Enter on the keypad (not on the main keyboard). Click a dierent tool. Click a dierent layer. (To cancel your editing changes before commit- ting to them, click the Cancel button on the Options bar or press Esc.) ➤ To move type to a dierent location in the docu- ment, click the type layer, click the Move tool or hold down Ctrl/Cmd, then drag the type. ➤ To delete selected type, press Backspace/Delete on the keyboard. Or to delete one character at a time, click with a type tool to create an insertion point, then press Backspace/Delete. SELECTING TYPE CHARACTERS To select type for copy editing or restyling, choose the Horizontal Type or Vertical Type tool, then do any of the following: Select consecu- tive characters or words Drag across them. Or click at the beginning of a series of words, then Shift- click at the end. Select a word Double-click a word Select consecu- tive words Double-click a word, then drag (without releasing the mouse) Select a line Triple-click a line Select a paragraph Quadruple-click in the paragraph Select all the characters in the type object Double-click the T thumb- nail on the Layers panel; or click in the text, then press Ctrl-A/Cmd-A A Drag across the characters to be selected. ptg Type 339 Recoloring type To recolor all the type on a layer: 1. On the Layers panel, click a type layer. 2. Do either of the following: Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical Type tool, then click the Text Color swatch on the Options bar. Click the Color swatch on the Character panel. 3. Choose a color in the Color Picker, then click OK. ➤ You can also apply a color, gradient, or pattern to a type layer via an editable Overlay eect (see pages 362–364). To recolor select characters or words: 1. Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical Type tool. 2. Click in the type to create an insertion point, then drag across the characters or words to be recolored. A 3. On the Options bar, click the Text Color swatch, choose a color in the color picker B or click a color in the image, then click OK. You can also choose a color via the Color panel or Swatches panel. A Drag across the characters to be recolored, then click the Text Color swatch on the Options bar. B Choose a replacement color from the color picker. Changing the font family and font style Method 1 1. On the Layers panel, double-click a T icon. If you don’t want to change all the selected type, select the characters or words to be restyled. 2. On the Options bar or the Character panel, choose from the Font Family menu, then from the Font Style menu (to show the Character panel, see the sidebar on page 342). Method 2 To change the font for all the type on a layer, click the layer without selecting anything, then use the Character panel, as described above. ➤ To deal with missing fonts in a le, see page 58. REMEMBER TO USE SMART QUOTES! To specify that curly typographer’s quotes be used for quotation marks and apostrophes — a basic rule of proper typesetting that is too often ignored — go to Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Type and check Use Smart Quotes. Straight quotes should be used only as abbreviations for foot and inch measurements! ptg 340 Chapter 20 To accept the type, click the Commit button on the Options bar or press Enter/Return. 4. A new Smart Object layer appears on the Layers panel. B 5. To edit the Smart Object, double-click the Smart Object layer thumbnail. If an alert regarding saving changes appears, click OK. If the PDF Modication Detected alert appears next, ★ click “Discard Changes, Preserving Illustrator Editing Capabilities,” then click OK. e embedded le (not the original one) will open in Illustrator. You can edit the type or any of its attributes or eects. Save and close the le. Your edits will appear in the Photoshop document. ➤ To learn more about Smart Object layers, see pages 308–311. Converting type To convert paragraph type to point type: On the Layers panel, right-click a type layer name and choose Convert to Point Text. A return will be added to the end of every line of type except the last one. If the type object con- tains hidden (overow) text, an alert dialog will warn you that the hidden text will be deleted if you proceed; click OK. ➤ We don’t know of a command in Photoshop that reveals hidden characters (paragraph returns and the like). We do wish there was one. To convert point type to paragraph type: On the Layers panel, right-click a type layer name and choose Convert to Paragraph Text. To reshape the resulting bounding box, follow the steps on page 346. Be sure to delete any unwanted hyphens that Photoshop may have inserted. Importing type from Illustrator into Photoshop as a Smart Object If you create type in Adobe Illustrator and then import it into Photoshop using the method out- lined below, it will arrive as a Smart Object layer in Photoshop. To edit or restyle the type at any time in Illustrator, simply double-click the Smart Object layer. When you return to Photoshop, your edits will appear in the Photoshop document. To import type from Adobe Illustrator as a Smart Object: 1. In Adobe Illustrator, make sure the type is on its own layer, then via File > Save As, save the le in the Illustrator Document (.ai) format. 2. Open a document in Photoshop, then do either of the following: In Photoshop, use File > Place to import the Illustrator le; or in Bridge, click the Illustrator le thumbnail, then choose File > Place > In Photoshop. In Illustrator, copy the type by pressing Ctrl-C/ Cmd-C. Click in the Photoshop document, then press Ctrl-V/Cmd-V. In the Paste dialog, click Paste As: Smart Object, then click OK. 3. To scale the type proportionally from its center, Alt-Shift/Option-Shift drag a corner handle. A A We used the Place command to import a type object from Illustrator. Here, we are scaling it proportionally. B When we accepted the object from Illustrator, the Smart Object icon appeared in the layer thumbnail. . in Photoshop. To edit or restyle the type at any time in Illustrator, simply double-click the Smart Object layer. When you return to Photoshop, your edits will appear in the Photoshop document. To. File > Save As, save the le in the Illustrator Document (.ai) format. 2. Open a document in Photoshop, then do either of the following: In Photoshop, use File > Place to import the Illustrator. hyphens that Photoshop may have inserted. Importing type from Illustrator into Photoshop as a Smart Object If you create type in Adobe Illustrator and then import it into Photoshop using