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Creating and editing a text layer

Creating and editing a text layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating and editing a text layer

In this exercise, we are going to create and format a new text layer. I'm working inside Base layers.psd. Now I don't need to see both of these images at the same time. Both the base image and the final version of the magazine cover. So I'm going to go up here to the Arrange Documents icon, and I'm going to choose Consolidate All or if you've loaded Deke keys you can press Ctrl+Shift+A, Command+Shift+A on the Mac. And then I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the model's shoulder right here, like so. I've already pressed the T key in order to get the Type tool. Now notice up here in the Options bar that we have a series of options that are associated with the Type tool. We've got this Font option followed by a Type Style, then we've got Size and Anti-alias, Alignment, Color, this is Text Warp and finally we've got this option right there. If you click on it, it will bring up the Character panel. If you click again it'll hide the Character panel, and the Character and Paragraph panels…

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