Chapter 11. Working with Type

In This Chapter

Creating and Editing Text 272

Changing the Look of Your Type 275

Working with Vertical Text 280

Anti-aliasing Type 282

Warping Text 283

Creating Text Effects Using Type Masks 285

Applying Layer Styles to Type 288

When you think about all of the sophisticated photo retouching, painting, and drawing you can do in Photoshop Elements, manipulating type may not be a priority on your to-do list. However, you can create some amazing projects with the type tools, including greeting cards, posters, announcements, and invitations—and you don’t have to fire up another software application.

This chapter covers the text formatting options and special type effects you can create with Photoshop Elements. If ...

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