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- CHANGE COLOR OF TEXT
To change the color of your text to a color from your image,
just click on the Foreground color swatch near the bottom
of the Toolbar, click a color in the image to sample it, and
click OK to make it the Foreground color. Then, select the
text you want to change with the Type tool, or double-click
the T in the Layers panel to select all text, and then use the
shortcut of Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace) to change the
text to the Foreground color.
If you then wanted to change a single word or a selec-
tion of words within that text to a different color to highlight
something, you can set the Background color the same way
by clicking its swatch in the Toolbar. Highlight the specific
piece of text you want to change and then use Command-
Delete (PC: Ctrl-Backspace) to make it the Background color.
- CHARACTER AND PARAGRAPH STYLES
Character and paragraph styles can save you a lot of time
when you need to use the same styling of text in the same
Photoshop document. You can find both panels under
the Window menu. Once you’ve formatted your text the
way you want, click on the flyout menu of either panel
and select New Paragraph Style or New Character Style,
depending on which panel you’re in. You can now apply
the character styles to any selected part of your text, but
applying paragraph styles will affect the whole paragraph.
You can experiment with mixing the two types of styles
together. You can also double-click the name of the styles
in the panels to edit them.
