Inside Photoshop® CS

Chapter 20. Typography and Page Layout in Photoshop

In this chapter, you'll learn

• How to size, merge, lay out, and align text to create a sign

• How to use the Paragraph palette

• How to lay out and design documents using Photoshop type

• The basics of typography, typefaces, and type design

• Best practices for using type in Photoshop

Photoshop type tools are an exciting aspect of the world of typography in general. In this chapter, we examine both type and Photoshop's capabilities for using type.

Photoshop now has a Type tool that is equivalent in power to the Type tool in an illustration program (such as Adobe Illustrator). We also have at our finger-“taps” a Free Transform tool, with which we can rotate and stretch type that remains editable, and a spell ...