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Q: Someone told me that I shouldn’t
add type in Photoshop because it’s
pixel-based, and that I should use
something like Illustrator instead.
Is that true?
A: It might have been true many years ago,
but not any more. The Type tool (T) in
Photoshop creates vector-based text
that’s very high quality, crisp, and re-size-
able. The type remains vector quality in a
PSD or PDF document. When you save in
a format such as JPEG, in theory the text
is rasterized; however, as long as the file
was created in the correct size and reso-
lution, it can be used for printing without
any noticeable loss in quality. (To be fair,
applications such as Illustrator and InDe-
sign have more control over how text is
edited, but from a pure quality stand-
point, there’s no problem with creating
text in Photoshop.)Q: I need to extend the sky in my
photo to fill the top few inches of
my canvas. What’s the best way to
do this?
A: Typically, Content-Aware Scale will give
you a good result, assuming that there
isn’t too much fine detail in the sky. Make
a selection of as much of the existing
sky as possible; then from the Edit menu,
choose Content-Aware Scale, and drag
the top handle up to fill the sky. Depend-
ing on your version of Photoshop, you
may or may not have to hold down the
Shift key. nIf you have a Photoshop question that you’d like Dave Cross
to answer in the pages of Photoshop User magazine, send it
to [email protected].