Working with text in Photoshop
Editing type layers
Once you have created some text on a type layer, there are several ways to edit it:
- You can double-click on the type layer’s thumbnail icon in the Layers palette. (Double-clicking on the tile instead opens the Layer Style dialog box or lets you edit the layer name.)
- You can click on top of the text with the Type tool. You know your cursor is in the right place when the Type tool’s cursor changes to an “I-beam.” However, if you click in the wrong place, Photoshop will create a new type layer; in this case, press the Escape key to cancel the new layer.
- Best yet, when you have both the Type tool selected in the Tool palette and the type layer selected in the Layers palette, you can choose Edit Type from the context-sensitive menu. On the Mac, Control-click anywhere on the image, or right-mouse-button click in Windows. You can also format various aspects of a layer by selecting the layer in the Layers palette and changing values in the Options bar (when the Text tool is selected), Character palette, or Paragraph palette (see “Text Formatting,” later in this chapter, for more on this). This changes the formatting (or color, or whatever) for all the text on the layer.
