Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Classroom in a Book

Chapter 11. Working with Text

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Adding text messages to your photos is another way to make your images and compositions even more memorable and personal.

Whether you want to add straightforward classic typography, or use effects, masks, and transparencies to make your text a striking design element in its own right, Photoshop Elements has all the right tools to make the job easy.

In this lesson you’ll learn the skills and techniques you need to work with text in Photoshop Elements:

• Working with the canvas

• Adding a border to an image

• Formatting and editing text

• Overlaying text on an image

• Applying effects and Layer Styles

• Hiding, revealing, merging and deleting layers

• Copying a text layer from one image to another ...