Chapter 12

Adding and Manipulating Type

Photoshop lets you add type to your images and precisely control the type’s appearance and layout.

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Add Type to an Image

Add Type in a Bounding Box

Change the Formatting of Type

Change the Color of Type

Warp Type

Add Type to an Image

Adding text enables you to label elements in your image or use letters and words in artistic ways. You insert text in Photoshop using the Type tool. The Toolbox contains horizontal and vertical versions of the tool.

Text that you add appears in its own layer. You can manipulate text layers in your image to move or stylize text. Text in Photoshop is vector-based, ...

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