PHLEARN – How to Use the Type Tool in Photoshop

The Type tool adds words to your images, and it is far more powerful than it first appears. Because text in Photoshop is vector-based rather than pixel-based, you can scale it up as large as you like without ever losing quality. In this lesson we walk through every setting the Type tool offers – typefaces and weights, size, color, the full Character panel including leading, kerning and tracking, and the Paragraph panel for alignment, indents and justification – plus vertical type and type masks.