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Point type and paragraph type

Point type and paragraph type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Point type and paragraph type

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- [Instructor] There are two flavors of text in Photoshop which will affect how the text behaves. There is point text, and there is paragraph text. On the left we see an example of point text, and on the right, paragraph text. Point text we've already seen, you click to make an insertion point, you type, and your type just continues until you press return to carry the letters down to the next line. Paragraph text, you click and drag with your type tool to create a type area, and then the type is confined within that area. I'll just come and remove that blank layer that I've created. If I click into the point text, we see that it has a line along its baseline. If I click into the paragraph text, we see a dotted line, defining the type area. There will inevitably be times when you need to convert from one type of Photoshop text to the other, and to do this, select the layer, don't select the type like this, because then it won't work. You just need the layer selected, and then you can…

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