From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop
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Adding text - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop
Adding text
- [Instructor] We'll now go ahead and add some text. And what I'm going to do is just zoom in on the top here, underneath the hero. So if you just tapped Z on your keyboard that will get you the Zoom tool, and then you can just click like so, to zoom in. You can actually click and drag, but for some people if they're new to the product, they don't actually get that good an experience 'cause it's zooms in real, real fast. But anyway, once we are zoomed in like so, we can tap T on the keyboard and you'll get an I-beam cursor icon, that's what that little thing is called, inside of a square. And if you take one edge over the line there so the I-beam is lined up on the guide of the left margin, and then click and drag a cross like so, you'll create an area text. And it will probably fill up with text like so, depending of course on a few things such as the size. And generally things on screen are around about 16 points on…
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