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Rose Evans
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Join date: 17 May 2006
Posts: 55
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07-09-2006 19:42
Trying to tighten up some text on a tshirt. Unfortunately the last line falls under the breasts so its a bit hard to read. I got plenty of room to move the text tighter together with out getting the top line too high up. But when I select the Move tool and go to move it it moves all the text. Even tried the Marquee tool, Marquee around the line and select the Marquee and I can move the Marquee around but it doesn't move the text, even if I were to Rasterize the text. No go.  Help? Rose |
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Chosen Few
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Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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07-09-2006 21:30
There are many ways to do this, but the simplest from where you are now is probably this:
1. Rasterize the text.
2. Use a marquee to select whatever portion of the text you want to move.
3. Grab the Move Tool, and move the selected letters wherever you want to put them.
From your description of what you were doing, it sounds like switching back to the Move Tool was the step you were missing. If you keep the Marquee Tool selected, you'll just move the marquee around, not the selection itself.
In the future, to make moving text easier, you might want to put each line of text on its own layer instead of all on one layer. In other words, it's usually simplest not to use the enter key when inputting text in Photoshop.
That having been said, Photoshop's text tools (as in all Adobe products) are quite powerful, and it's certainly possible to move words, individual letters, entire paragraphs, etc, anywhere you want on the page without ever touching the graphical tools, but that's a whole other tutorial. Until and unless you want to take a little time to learn how the text editing tools operate, the simplest thing to do is just to use multiple layers for your various text objects.
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Cottonteil Muromachi
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Join date: 2 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,071
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07-10-2006 01:36
From: Rose Evans Trying to tighten up some text on a tshirt. If I understand you correctly, you want to sort of make the gaps between the characters closer? 1. Go to the menu bar under 'Window' and turn on 'Character' to bring up the editing tools for text. 2. Double click your text layer to edit it. Its the giant T in the layer panel. 3. Select the text. 4. In the 'Character' panel, there is an option to change the leading. The symbol looks like two As on top of each other. Alter that value and it will squash the gap between the lines of text together. The other options on that panel, you can experiment with. Only takes a few minutes to understand what they all do. |