Photo Text Solo Manual

* PText Solo 10/2/98 12:58 PM Page 1 PhotoText PhotoText is a full-featured character-based text layout plug-in Tip that adds powerful type capabilities to Photoshop. For a full listing of keyboard short- cuts, including key commands for When you open PhotoText, you see a resizable, zoomable preview manipulating text, refer to of your active layer. When you “apply” your text, PhotoText auto- Appendix A. matically creates a new layer for it (Photoshop 4.x and 5.x) or places it as a floating selection (Photoshop 3.x). Inside the Preview window, PhotoText gives you all the tools you need to enter, manipulate, and position text, including tracking and kerning, width adjustment, and character styles. You can save and reapply your styles, and you can save your text blocks and re- edit them in their original position with all styles intact. The PhotoText Dialog box (Windows) A Text tool: I-beam cursor for creating, selecting and editing text. Define your I J K L M N O P Q text block while in the Text tool mode by clicking and dragging the mouse. B Move tool: Arrow cursor for resizing or moving text blocks. C Zoom tool: Click to zoom in. Click A with ALT key to zoom out. B D Hand tool: Allows you to move the C D image around in the Preview window. E E Eyedropper: Extracts a color from the F Preview for applying to text. F Color pop-up: Displays the currently G selected text color. Provides access to the Photoshop color picker, Foreground, and Background colors. H G Anti-Alias On/Off: When on, smooths the edges of text created in larger font sizes. H Cursor position: Indicates cursor position X/Y coordinates on the screen. I PhotoText Menu J Fonts pop-up: Lists available fonts. R S The currently selected font name appears in the box. K Style: Adjust character style at…