Embedded Files
Add a Single Line of Text
Select the Text Tool and click anywhere on your image and start typing.
A new layer is automatically created.
Use the menu options to Change the Font Type, Size, Color, etc.
When you’ve finished typing, click on the large check in the options bar.
Add Word-Wrapping Text
Word Wrapping defines an area in which the text is contained.
With the text tool, just click and drag to create a text box.
Warping Text
Select the text that you want to warp; then click the Create Warped Text button on the options bar.
Select one of the warp options from the Style drop-down menu.
You can experiment with the values in the Warp Text dialog box.
Fonts and the Character Panel
Font Family: Where you chose the font your text object is set in, for example, Helvetica, Arial, Times New Roman, etc.
Font Style: If you have font families installed, your “font style” may be active, this is where you can choose alternate versions of the same face. For instance, Arial Bold, Arial Narrow, Arial Condensed, Arial Rounded MT, Arial Black, etc.
Font Size: Where you can numerically alter the size of your font. Type in numbers here or use the pulldown menu for suggested common point sizes.
Leading: Typographic term for the space between lines of paragraph text, set in points.
Kerning: Horizontal spacing between pairs of letters. Negative numerical values here will close spaces between characters while positive values will add space between letters.
Tracking: Similar to the concept of Kerning, Tracking adjusts the general kerning over an entire text object or over several selected letters. You can adjust tracking on a text object, and then kern between individual letters, if you wish.
Vertical Scale: A controlled way to stretch and squash typography up and down. Input numerical values here in percent of the original character height.
Horizontal Scale: A controlled way to stretch and squash typography to the left and right. Input numerical values here in percent of the original character width.
Baseline Shift: The baseline is the line the text “rests” on. Move certain selected characters off the baseline to make them appear higher or lower than the rest of the set text.
Text Color: An area where text object color can be adjusted.
Language: Adjusts the language the text is set in, in case non-English characters are needed.
Anti-Aliasing: Options for rendering text in pixels by adjusting the amount of pixel blurring used to describe the edges of type. “None” renders letters in hard-edged pixels, while all others use various forms of anti-aliasing.
Faux Bold and Other Character Panel Options
Faux Bold and Other Character Panel Options
Faux Bold: The size of your current font is artificially thickened to create an artificial bold font. Using an actual bold font in the “Font Family” or “Font Style” is generally preferable.
Faux Italic: Your current font is artificially slanted to the right, creating a false italic look. Again, using an actual italic font in the “Font Family” or “Font Style” is preferable.
Uppercase: Transforms your type into all uppercase. Very useful in those cases where it is time consuming to retype large sections of upper and lower case text.
Small Caps: Creates a false small caps by shrinking the point size of your uppercase letters. All lowercase letters will be replaced with these smaller capitals in your text object.
Superscript: Changes selected text or text object to superscript.
Subscript: Changes selected text or text object to subscript.
Underline: Adds a simple underscore underneath your selected text or text object.
Strikethrough: Adds a simple strike through all of your selected text or text object.
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