Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

The same image, this time scaled

to 480 ppi (3200%) using Image Size

in Figure 11-2.) So fortunately, there’s a second, arguably

better way to scale vectors—the Image Size command.

To achieve the result pictured in Figure 11-4, I chose

Image→Image Size and turned on the Resample Image

check box. (Scale Styles and Constrain Proportions were

also turned on.) Then I increased the Resolution value to

a whopping 480 pixels per inch. The result looks every

bit as good as the PostScript output, except for the drop

shadow, which looks even better. (The Image Size com-

mand can scale drop shadows, whereas PostScript printing

can’t.) Now I can print this artwork to any printer—Post-

Script, inkjet, or otherwise—and it’ll look just as it does

in Figure 11-4.

The upshot is that vectors are a world apart from any-

thing else inside Photoshop, always rendering at the full

resolution of the image. To see more on this topic, watch

Video Lesson 11, “Creating Vector Art in Photoshop,”

introduced on page 374).

Creating and Formatting Text

Text inside Photoshop works a lot like it does inside every major

publishing application. You can apply typefaces, scale characters,

adjust line spacing, and so on. However, because Photoshop isn’t

well suited to routine typesetting, we won’t spend much time on the

routine functions. Instead, we’ll take a look at some text treatments

to which Photoshop is very well suited, as well as a few functions

that are exceptional or even unique to the program.

In this exercise, we’ll add text to an image and format the text to

fit its background. We’ll also apply a few effects to the text that go

beyond anything you can accomplish outside Photoshop.

1. Open an image. Not every image welcomes the
   addition of text. After all, text needs room to breathe,
   so your image should have ample dead space. Such is
   the case with TV movie ad.psd (see Figure 11-5 on the facing
   page). Found in the Lesson 11 folder in Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1,
   this image is the foundation for an advertisement for a made-
   for-TV movie starring some of basic cable’s brightest names. In
   reality, it’s an amalgam of a few images from PhotoSpin, which
   is apparently a great resource for photos of people smirking or
   shrugging. I already did the compositing; now we need to insert
   the copy (industryspeak for blather).

Figure 11-4.

376 Lesson 11: Text and Shapes