Working with Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

Photoshop Text Basics 101

I will say it now, and I will say it again and again and again.  When you start working with text in Adobe Photoshop CC and you think you are stupid because you can´t get any basic stuff done, then you are not alone.  You are not stupid.  The system of Working with Text in Adobe Photoshop CC is stupid.  It makes no sense at all.  Fortunately you can watch this video and then, Working with Text in Adobe Photoshop CC will be the easiest thing you have done in your entire life.

Adobe Photoshop CC Kerning Leading and Tracking

When Working with Text in Adobe Photoshop CC, Kerning, Leading, and Tracking can be very important.  Many people have no clue what Kerning, Leading and Tracking is.  The really funny thing is that you find Kerning, Leading and Tracking in any application that has text.  Even Word has Kerning, Leading and Tracking.  This video series was developed for Web folks, creating text for images that will be used on the web.  If you think about it, if you are using text in images for the web, most likely, you are using just a few words.  Thus, the few words, or the few lines of text must fit just right over or in the image.  You control the space between letters, words and lines of text with Kerning, Leading and Tracking.

Adobe Photoshop CC Typing on a Path

For decades you could type along a path in Adobe Illustrator.  That was and is a wonderful artistic thing to do.  Having the ability to type on a curve going around the moon, or to have text float across a wave on the ocean, or being able to make text curve along the wing span of an Eagle flying.  All really cool effects that you can now do when Working with Text in Adobe Photoshop CC.  It took Adobe years to catch Photoshop up with Illustrator, but the time has come and now you can make it happen.