Creating Text in Photoshop

July 6, 2008 · Print This Article

This how to create text tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.

This tutorial helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and how to use all types of textures to improve your designs - textures are extremely useful when you have boring images that need sprucing up.

Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, using different textures and discover more in Photoshop.

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Before (first image) & After (second image)

How to Create Text Tutorial - The Steps

Firstly open Photoshop, then make a new canvas: -> File -> New, then match your settings to mine, click here. Once that’s done, click OK.

Then find the Text Tool, or simply hit the T button on your keyboard. Then left click on your white canvas, and start typing.

Now if you want to make the text bigger or smaller, highlight the text CTRL/Command +A, then above almost at the top of your screen, you’ll see a bunch of settings you can change, see here. So basically, you’ve got your text highlighted, if you want to change the size click on the numbered drop down menu, if you change the numbers you’ll notice the size of your text changes.

If you want to change the style of your font, click on the first drop down menu, the one that says ‘Arial’ in my screen shot, change it and again, you’ll notice that the font changes, continue changing it until you find something you like.

Lastly, if you want to make your text bold, or maybe make it underlined, then click on the button on the right, where all your text settings are. The button that you need to click is highlighted in Red, see here. One that’s done, you’ll notice a little box should turn up on the right, the box will look like this.

Now highlight the text again, and then once your text is highlighted, click the little bold button in the box that just popped up, click here. You’ll see that I’ve highlighted four buttons in red, the first two on the left are bold and italic and underlined and strikeout. If you want to make your text bold, click the first, if you don’t like it in bold, click it again and it’ll go back to normal. same goes for the other three buttons.

Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this “How to Create Text” Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.