WEEK 2: TEXT TOOLS AND LAYERS

We worked on creating a practise front cover and were shown how to use the text tools in Photoshop.

 

 

 

TEXT TOOLS:

The text tool in Photoshop looks like this (above). Once clicking it a cursor appeals allowing you to click anywhere on you image to place where you want your writing to be, you then type whatever you want. To adjust your text you highlight what you have written, this enables you to change the font, text size, colour etc. This is all in a bar across the top, you can also adjust the smaller details such as the height of the letters, the spacing between the letters and the width of the letters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAYERS:

The text becomes a separate layer to the photo and you can cut out the person, making the person and the background two separate layers so you can put the masthead behind the persons head if desired. Using the layers you can also add layer effects such as drop shadow and bevel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These skills are useful for making our magazine as we can not only add text but also alter it to however we want and easily move and change it as desired.