[newcomer]

I'm trying to use Photoshop 6 to make text slides to put into my iPhoto slide shows.

The text tool seems really tricky though. For example - whenever I hit return, instead of moving down a line, my cursor just returns to the middle of the current line.

Also - is there any way I can just make the entire document one huge text box, select centre align (vertical and horizontal) and just tap away until I fill the slide?

What I'm trying to do is surely very simple. Any hints?

[chris.p]

To make a text box which you can resize and align the text in: Select the text tool, and click and drag- it will make a box to type in.

For the 'return' problem- make sure your leading is set to an acceptable amount- at least the font size, and increase or decrease from there. Or set it to auto (line space may be too much though). If its not the leading causing the problem, I'm not sure what it is.

[Old Toad]

The text tool seems really tricky though. For example - whenever I hit return, instead of moving down a line, my cursor just returns to the middle of the current line. [/B]

It sounds like you have the text justification set to center, so the curser jumps to the beginning of the next line which is centered. There are icons in the tool bar that represent left ,center and right justification. Select all the text and click on the justification you'd like.


Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.

[newcomer]

thanks very much for your help. Photoshop is just so 'big' that not everything is as intuitive as it might be.

a few more weeks practise and i'm sure it'll all become second nature.

cheers again.