Inside Photoshop® CS

Spell Checking and Photoshop

Photoshop's spell checker is sort of like a tasting spoon at Baskin-Robbins. The checker is serviceable, but for heavy-duty text formatting, spell checking, and other word processor tasks, you should use a word processor.

Still, it's nice to be able to do spot checks in Photoshop, and the following steps will show you how to check the spelling in your creations and add your own custom spellings to the spell-checker's dictionary.

Spell Checking and Increasing the Number of Words

1.	Open the GrandFunc.tif image from the Examples\Chap03 folder on the companion CD.
2.	Choose white for the foreground color. Choose the Text tool, and click in the image to deliberately mistype Grand Func Railway (two lines of text and a ...