7. Fun with Type, Shapes, and Cookie Cutter Tools

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Once your photos are picture-perfect—or nearly so—you can become creative with them. This chapter shows some of the amazing things that you can add to, or do, with the Type, Shape, and Cookie Cutter tools in Photoshop Elements. The Type tool lets you add text to photos for everything from titles, photo credits, and captions. The Shape tools give you the ability to create and add both geometric and custom shapes. The Cookie Cutter tool lets you quickly change a photo into a shape that you can further modify using Layer styles.

Adding Text Using the Type Tool

We’ll begin by tackling the Type tool, ...

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