Expert: Glen Demers - 4/22/2011

Question
QUESTION: Text I type with the text tool appears in the layer 1 box.  I have followed all the advice I can find on the web, and still the text does not appear beneath the jpg. image.  Background white, foreground black, reset text tool, font size tried up to 48, view set to huge, resolution 300 dpi. Should be most grateful for your advice. Tx.

ANSWER: Hi Jay,

Select the text tool and on your image, click and drag out a large text frame. Start typing your text. If you can't see it after a few words then hit command/control A to select all the text. You have to have the text selected for changes to take affect. Now change the font, font size and color to see if the type comes into view.

I don't know about Elements, but in Photoshop the color of your text is a swatch on the tool bar at the top of your workspace and not the foreground/background proxy.

Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
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QUESTION: Thanks so much for a very quick answer - but so far no success.  I have inserted the text box (first time I have seen it mentioned), but with Ctrl A I get an overlining but nothing in it.  I found the colour swatch for type and set it to black, the typing appears in a layer box, but not in the text box below (not on) the image.  Any other ideas?  Jay.

ANSWER: Jay,

The text has to be on the image or at least in the image window. Try making the text box a lot taller and wider than necessary. Once the type is set you can move and resize it.

Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com

For more Photoshop tips please visit our help pages here: http://www.bestprintingonline.com/photoshop.htm

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QUESTION: Some progress at last - but unfortunately, I can only see the text as long as the box is over the image.  If I reduce its size so it goes beneath the image, it vanishes again.  Since the image is of a painting of mine, for presentation to a gallery, what I need to do is add a caption underneath, giving title, size and technique - but not write over the image itself. Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, as I see there is a box marked "caption".  I put the required text as a caaption in Picasa, it just doesn't turn up in Elements - which I am using to edit the images and to place them on the page for printing.
Sorry to be a nuisance, but I am most grateful for your input.  Jay.

Answer
Hi Jay,

I think what you'll have to do is go to Image>Canvas Size... and increase the height of your canvas. Move the proxy in the dialog box so that you're only adding canvas to the bottom of your image.
This will give you a clean area to put your caption.

Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com

For more Photoshop tips please visit our help pages here: http://www.bestprintingonline.com/photoshop.htm