Category Archives: Tip of the Day

Exact Sizing For Your Text Columns

We already showed you how to create a column of type by clicking-and-dragging the Type tool to create your text box so your text will wrap within that column. But here’s a quick little tip…

Editing Type On A Path

If you’ve created some type on a path, highlighting that type to edit it (to change the font, color, spelling, etc.) can be kind of tricky. That’s why it’s quicker to go to the Layers…

Making The Spell Checker Obey Your Commands

Photoshop’s spell checker isn’t just window dressing; it has a very robust spell-checking function, akin to Adobe InDesign’s own spell checker, but if you understand how it works, you can save yourself some time and…

Made To Fit: Part Two

This tip relates to a previous tip, where you created what’s called a “text box” so that your type wraps within a text block, rather than running in one straight line. The tip is this:…

The Long And The Short Of Type

Although the Character palette has numeric controls for making your type fatter (horizontal scaling) or taller (vertical scaling), it’s usually easier to do these two functions visually (rather than numerically). Here’s how: First set your…

Bring Those Type Layers Together

How do you merge two Type layers together? Unfortunately, while they’re still editable Type layers, you can’t—you have to rasterize the layers first. Technically, you rasterize just one (the bottom of the two Type layers),…

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