For 15 minutes I have just been trying to change the text color on the writting tool. I change it on the top bar and also change the colors side bar. Does it work? No.

Everytime I try to use this POS program I get so frustrated I nearly pound the #@%%^ out of my laptop. Why is this program so user unfriendly?

THE DESIGNERS NEED A BEATIN!!!

 

It is user friendly if you have a few brain cells.

 

It is a complicated program, but awesome things can be done when you know what you are doing.

 

Cowboy,
Yeah you want to explain why the font color won't change? Why after using the writting tool it does not show what you've written and you have to go back to another tool before it goes out of edit mode? I have never seen a program with so many non intuitive features. I guess I will need to get a 500 page manual to use the POS.

 

: Operator Error :

 

I've never read the manual and it works quite well for me.

Without not really knowing what it is you are "actually" doing, it's impossible to tell what the problem is.

First though, before anyhthing else, you must learn to think in terms of LAYERS.

That's all I can say for now.

Breath deeply. Calm down. Make sure you know which layer is active, and call up the "Character" window to control the type (asssuming you have not rasterized it).

 

Naw it's only 418 (literally) for version 7.0 anyway, but it is small font....

 

Thanks looks like I will need to study the program. There is no comparison to other programs I have played with before. You could actually figure out how to do things so I assumed this would be the same.

 

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1


pop ups on this next one.....

http://desktoppublishing.com/photoshoptips.html

 

Thanks man. Sorry to rant.

 

I taught myself but had others helping me, I can ussually pick up a program and have the basics figured out with in an hour.... Photoshop took me two weeks before I was able to do my first image all on my own.

 

No problem, it does sound like you have likley clicked off your text layer. Actually you have probably made several text layers with nothing in them. Look in your layers browser, by default it is in the lower right hand side. Make sure your clicked on the layers tab, then make sure the text layer that you are trying to edit is selected. If you missed the text box that you are trying to edit with your writing tool, or if you are not clicked on that text layer then it creates a new text layer each time you click on the window with the text tool.

 

OK dude, a very, very quick bit of playing around so you can feel like you accomplished something, which will then build confidence, which will lead to you becoming a Photoshop™ Master is about a week, which will then allow me to call you at all hours of the night to ask your advice on how to do stuff I can't figure out.

FIrst, go to the "File" menu and Choose "New" and you'll see a window like this open up:



make the width 1000 pixels
the height 200 pixels
the resolution 72 pixels/inch
and the background contents "white"

click "OK"

You're gonna see something like this:



In the tool window (on the left) select the "T"ype tool (see number one in the diagram above)

Put your cursor in the white window area and type something. The colour of the text will be the same as the colour in the foreground colour chooser (see that little black box in front of the blue box in the tool window on the left? The black is the foreground colour. If you change that before you type it will be whatever colour you choose for the foreground. In our example I typed "KOBIASHI"

Look where it sez "3". The little cirlce is around the tab that sez "Layers" click on that tab. Make sure the layer that is the text layer is the highlighted layer.

Instruction 3.5 . . . in the tools palette on the left, click on the little arrowhead in the upper right

Look at "4" It is showing you the "CHARACTER" palette. If you donet see this then choose the menu "Window" and click on "Character" in this window you can adjust font size and width and spacing and COLOUR!!!!. In our example it is black. Click on the little black color (or whatever color yous happens to be) (it is circled in the above example, and a color palette will open. choose a colour, click OK and the text you tped will change to that colour.

 

Yep, those layers got the best of me for about the first week I tried to run PS.

 

I have version 8 is it the same? I don't see step 3 the layers thing