Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature

Creating Type Layers

TYPE LAYERS ARE HOW YOU GET TEXT INTO YOUR PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENTS. BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF EXTRAS, TOO

Creating text in Photoshop is simple enough. In fact, I probably wouldn’t need to write much of a tutorial for that: select the Type tool, click on the canvas, then type away. There...we’re done! But there’s a ton of other features when it comes to building images with professional-looking text and that’s what we’re going to cover in this tutorial. So, here’s the deal: this is a type chapter, but it’s no fun to just create text for the heck of it, so I created a little project. It’s a newsletter page for a finance column.

Step 1: You Have a Choice to Make

So, you have two options. (1) Start here and open the PSD file (that ...