Photoshop® CS5 Bible

Chapter 18. Working with Text

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Adding text to images

• Formatting text

• Applying layer styles to text

• Applying text to a path

• Controlling text flow

• Applying textual effects

Text can be an extremely important element to images, not only to add information but to contribute to the overall appearance. Photoshop provides the ability to add text to images as vector objects. This chapter discusses the tools used to add and edit text, as well as applying textual elements to images in some creative ways. Photoshop's tools allow you to configure and control the format and flow of the text and provide a way to edit the text right down to the character shapes.

A Little Bit about Text

Before jumping into adding text to images, let's look at what text really means inside Photoshop. When you initially consider text, you probably think about letters, words, and paragraphs.

Then as you apply the term text to a computer application, you start to include the concept of fonts or typefaces. Although the terms font and typeface are used synonymously, they are actually a bit different. A font consists of a set of letters, numbers, and/or symbols that have the same weight and style. A typeface is a collection or family of fonts that have the same overall appearance but different weights or styles. For example, many typefaces include regular, bold, and italic font versions.

The following is a list of the different font types that you can work with in Photoshop:

• PostScript: PostScript or Type 1 fonts were ...