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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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