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on your keyboard to move it. You can go crazy and remove points,
or really pull points out to make massively reshaped type. To delete
an anchor point, Right-click on it and choose Delete Anchor Point.
- TYPING VERTICAL
In most cases, when you lay out type, you select the Type tool (T), click
on the canvas, and start typing. But sometimes you may need your type
to read vertically. This is easily achieved but often overlooked. Just
click-and-hold on the Type tool in the Toolbar, and you’ll see some
additional tools, one of which is the Vertical Type tool. Select this tool,
click on your canvas, and as you type, you’ll see that each letter appears
directly below the previous letter.
- MATCHING FONTS
Match Font tries to help you identify a font in an image that you
want to replicate. I say “tries” because Match Font will do its very
best to find a match: sometimes it’s accurate; sometimes it will only
get you close, depending on the quality of the type in the image.
Open an image in Photoshop that has type that you’d like to match,
and go to Type>Match Font. This brings up a dialog with some
instructions, and an option to Show Fonts Available to Activate
From Adobe Fonts, which I recommend. Now drag and resize the
bounding box around your type in the image, and you’ll see some
suggestions begin to appear. Select the font that you think is the
closest, and then activate it if it’s an Adobe Font. Click OK.
- GIVE TYPE OOMPH WITH PATTERN FILLS
Aside from giving your text a color fill, you can also apply a pattern fill
to give it some extra “oomph,” as we say in the business. To see your
collection of patterns you can go to Window>Patterns; but, for this
effect, we’re going to use the Pattern Overlay layer style. Double-click
on the type layer to bring up the Layer Style dialog, and in the list of
Styles on the left, click on Pattern Overlay. Now select the pattern you
want to use and control the Scale, Angle, and Opacity of the fill. You
- WARP TEXT, PART 1
There are a couple of ways to warp text (we’ll look at the second
way in the next tip). In this method, we’ll keep the text editable. Just
type out your text with the Type tool, Right-click the text layer in the
Layers panel, and choose Convert to Smart Object. Now you can
apply the warp to the word but still get back to the original type
layer. Go to Edit>Transform>Warp, warp your text, and press Enter
to commit the transformation. If you need to change the text, just
double-click the smart object thumbnail in the Layers panel to open
a temporary document with your type, change the word to some-
thing else, and then save and close the temporary document. The
word will update in your original document with the warp applied.
- WARP TEXT, PART 2
In this second warping text example, we’ll do something more
destructive but still effective. Type out your word, Right-click the
type layer, and select Convert to Shape, or go to Type>Convert to
Shape. This makes the type exactly that, a shape. But an editable
shape, which means you can use the Direct Selection tool (nested
below the Path Selection tool [A] in the Toolbar) to start manipulat-
ing and reshaping the letters individually. First, click away from
the text to deactivate all the points, and then click on a letter to see
the points just for that letter. Now you can click-and-drag the points
on the path to edit the shape. You can also click on a point to make
it active (an active point turns blue), and then use the Arrow keys
can also choose Link with Layer so that as you scale the type, your
pattern will scale with it. It’s a great way of adding nondestructive
effects to your type.
