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Adding text and labels

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Adding text and labels

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- Chapter Three-Oh-Six, we are going to look at adding text and labels and we are going to wiz through this because adding text and labels is one of the easier things to do and this explains some of the ways in which you can bring text in from an external file source and then edit it back in that application. So what I've done on the edit and down to preferences, if you're using the Mac it's layout and preferences. Under the applications I've set up Photoshop as my default image editor and I've got Word and Excel as my text and table editors, so I'll just close that. And you can insert text as one of the insertable contents into layouts. So if I go File and then down to insert then if you've got access to the Excel's files then Chapter Three, Drawing and annotation, there's a folder called Sample Text and it's this thing. It's called Lures mumps dolor sits mate is and it's an alternative to the Larum ipsum placeholder text so I'll select that and open it And then the text appears in…

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