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Using Horizontal Type Tool

                 Follow the below steps to use the Horizontal Type Tool:

                 Step 1:   Open a new document in Photoshop and click on the Horizontal Type Tool from the Tools
                         panel.
                 Step 2:  Set the properties in the Options bar such as font size, colour, style, etc.




                                                    Options bar of Horizontal Type Tool
                 Step 3:   Click on the document or image and start typing the text. Your
                         text will have an underline and a cursor will show where you are
                         inserting the next letter. If you keep typing, the text will continue in
                         one long single line. To start a new line, press Enter key from your
                         keyboard. This procedure is called Point text typing.
                 There is a second way for entering text, i.e., Paragraph Text:

                 Step 1:    Open a new document and click on the Horizontal Type Tool from
                         the Tools panel.

                 Step 2:   Drag the mouse pointer in an outward direction to draw a rectangle. You should see something
                         like this.
                 Step 3:    Now, when you start typing the text is limited by the box’s size. As soon as the text
                         reaches the boundary of the bounding box, it moves to the next line automatically. You
                         do not have to press the Enter key. You can increase the size of this box by dragging the
                         text box handles on the centre and corner of the dotted box.

                 Step 4:   With the help of the Move Tool align the entire block of text anywhere on your page.
                 Similarly, you can enter text perpendicularly on your image by using the Vertical Type Tool.
                 Follow the same steps that you followed in the Horizontal Type Tool.

                      Using Horizontal Type Mask Tool

                 The Horizontal Type Mask Tool allows us to put an image as text fill instead of solid colours. Follow
                 the below steps to do so:

                 Step 1:    Open an image in an existing Photoshop document. Now, we have two layers, one with white
                         background, second is image layer above the background layer.

                 Step 2:   Keeping the image layer selected, choose the Horizontal Type Mask Tool from the Tools panel,
                         and type some text on the image layer. No new text layer will be created as it is a masked
                         text.
                 Step 3:   After entering  text, as you  click  on the  Move  Tool  from the  Tools  panel, the text  will  be
                         converted into dotted selection border which look like marching ants.

                 Step 4:   Click on the Layer Mask Tool icon present at the bottom of the Layers panel. It will place the
                         image inside text. So, the background is visible through the text.




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