Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 12

Giving Your Images a Text Message

IN THIS CHAPTER

Testing your type techniques

Creating paragraphs with type containers

Shaping up with Warp Text and type on a path

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours. Or, as folks often paraphrase Napoleon, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” (Yes, 1,000 words might equal “a long speech.”) But sometimes in your Photoshop artwork, nothing says Bob’s Hardware quite like the very words Bob’s Hardware. A picture of a hammer and a picture of a nail — perhaps toss in some nuts and bolts — all are great symbols for your client’s logo. However, you also need to give Bob’s customers a name and an address so they can actually spend some money, which goes a long way toward helping Bob pay you.

For a program that’s designed to work with photographic images, Photoshop has incredibly powerful text capabilities. Although it’s not a page-layout program such as Adobe InDesign, a web development program such as Dreamweaver, or a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, Photoshop can certainly enable you to add lines, paragraphs, or even columns of text to your images.

Photoshop offers you three categories of text:

• Point type is ...