Photoshop - Editing Type

[beano500]

Here! Say you've added a text layer in PS, twiddled and fiddled and tweaked and twifled with it....


How do you go in and actually edit what the text says??????


I assume there must be some way to do it?

>> Edited by beano500 on Thursday 8th December 22:30

[GetCarter]

go back to the layer with the type on it... then you can edit it (when you are in text mode).

>> Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 8th December 22:01

[TimW]

You have to hold at the beggining or the end of the text on the text layer. until the symbol changes. click it. it should work its enoying if u dont get it right it will create a new text layer.


RB if it works...

[beano500]

Ah - now I am so glad you said that. Thank you, Steve.

That's exactly what I thought would happen. You've just confirmed that I'm not going completely

For some reason I've got a hand/mouse/Photoshop interface breakdown. Don't know what I am doing wrong, but selecting the layer and the type tool it keeps wanting to give me a new type layer.....

...it must be really stupid, whatever I am doing wrong, but I just cannot see it.....

[TimW]

If i am reading yours correct, Read mine, click on the TEXT LAYER you want to edit the TEXT of, once on that get the TEXT TOOL and hold it over the begging or end of the piece of TEXT you wish to edit and the little symbol SHOULD change then click, it SHOULD bring you to edit the TEXT on the TEXT LAYER already there without creating a NEW TEXT LAYER.


lol,

[beano500]

Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh!

DIPSTICK ALERT!!!







I'd flattened the image when I introduced it to a new canvas. But because I've got a whole load of images grouped in the "main" one, I'd forgotten that I'd settled on the text image look for now!

I've gone back to the original file and, sure enough, the cursor changes at teh end and I can select the text!!!

[TimW]

making a xmas card maybe?

[beano500]

Yup, thanks Tim as well as Steve!

Just thought I'd change the text (you know, Happy Easter, Happy Bar Mitzvah, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Halloween, Rollicking Ramadan, Sorry You're Leaving, You're Ill - Don't Peg Out Just Yet, et cetera....) and get it to do every occasion!

[Zad]

I know this has been done, but in case anyone else gets this problem. It's sometimes nearly impossible to work out where the text starts and finishes, so to avoid messing around with the cursor, there is another way:

Select the text layer, and double click on the 'T' in the layer box, that will select the whole text. You then use the home/end or cursor keys as needed.

Mike

[beano500]

Top tip!