Photoshop 6 First Impressions
New
Feature Highlights, Page 2
New:
Photoshop
7.0 is now available! 
Enhanced
Text Features
There
are so many new text features, they really deserve an article all to themselves,
but for now, here's the highlights... Most importantly, there's no more text
entry dialog box! Now you can enter text directly on your Photoshop document.
The Text Tool Options Bar - The first set of buttons let you choose type
layer or selection. The next pair of buttons control the horizontal or vertical
orientation of the text. Of course, the next three menus are for setting the
font, style and size. Anti-aliasing controls include crisp, strong, smooth,
and none. The next three buttons are for text alignment. Then there's text color
and the text warp button.
 The Character Palette lets you specify font and size, plus kerning, leading, tracking, scale, baseline shift, and color... not just for the text layer, but for individual characters, if desired. |
 The Paragraph Palette offers options for adjusting the alignment, justification, indentation, paragraph spacing, and hyphenation. |
Text can be resized, rotated, scaled, skewed, and distorted and always remains crisp and editable. Text can also be converted to vector shapes or work paths.
 In
addition, there's 15 preset warp shapes that can be applied to create text
that curves, bulges, arcs, twists, and more. The Warp Text dialog
lets you control the amount of bend as well as horizontal and vertical distortion.
Several of the text warp styles are shown below. |
Continue on to see the eye-popping new layer styles and fantastic presets.
Layer Styles -->
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