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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2
User Guide
To resize or transform a type bounding box
1 Display the bounding box handles of paragraph type:
• (Photoshop) With the Type tool active, select the type layer in the Layers palette, and click in the text flow in
the image.
• (ImageReady) With the Type tool active, select the type layer.
Note: You can transform point type while in edit mode. Hold down the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) key, and
a bo
unding box appears around the type.
2 Do one of the following:
• To resize the bounding box, position the pointer over a handle—the pointer turns into a double arrow —and
drag. Shift-drag to maintain the proportions of the bounding box.
• (Photoshop)
a curved, two-sided arrow
To rotate the bounding box, position the pointer outside the bounding border—the pointer turns into
—and drag. Shift-drag to constrain the rotation to 15˚ increments. To change the
center of rotation, Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) the center point to a new location. The
center point can be outside the bounding box.
• (Photoshop) To skew the bounding box, hold down Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac OS) and drag
a side handle. The pointer turns into an arrowhead with a small double arrow
.
Skewing type using the bounding box
• (Photoshop) To scale the type as you resize the bounding box, Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS)
a corner handle.
• (Photoshop) To resize the bounding box from the center point, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) a
corner handle.
Type layers
About type layers
After you create a type layer, you can edit the type and apply layer commands to it. You can change the orientation
of the type, apply anti-aliasing, convert between point type and paragraph type, create a work path from type, or
convert type to shapes. You can move, restack, copy, and change the layer options of a type layer as you do for a
normal layer. You can also make the following changes to a type layer and still edit the type:
• Apply transformation commands from the Edit menu, except for Perspective and Distort.
Note: T
o apply the Perspective or Distort commands, or to transform part of the type layer, you must first rasterize the
type layer, turning the type shapes into a pixel image. Keep in mind that rasterized type no longer has vector outlines and
is uneditable as type.