Photoshop Type Tool Tutorials for Beginners

There's two main kinds of type that we can add in Photoshop - point type and area type. By far the most commonly used of the two is point type which is what we'll be looking at in this tutorial.

Whenever we want to add any sort of text to a document, we use Photoshop's Type Tool which is found in the Tools panel along the left side of the screen. It's the icon that looks like a capital letter T. You can also select the Type Tool by pressing the letter T on your keyboard:

Another advantage with the Photoshop Warp Text options is that the warping effects themselves also remain 100% fully editable. Nothing we do with them permanently changes the look of our type. Photoshop simply remembers the settings we used and essentially shows us a live preview of what those settings look like. We can go back at any time and change any of the settings.

This tutorial will teach you how to create type that follows a custom path, or fills a custom shape in Photoshop. We�ll start with paths, and move our way up to filling and typing along shapes.

Point Type: This option will create a Type layer into a single line, the break lines must be placed by you hitting Return or Enter in the keyboard. To create a Point Type layer select your desired Type Tool (Horizontal or Vertical text), and click one time with the cursor anywhere you want to put the text in. Then just start writing, when you have finished to add the text you can either click the tiny Commit button on the Option bar, hit the Enter key on the numeric pad of your keyboard or just hit Command + Enter.

So for those of you who have Microsoft Windows running on your computer, here is how you can install a new font that will be available in most of the Software Programs that you have installed, like Photoshop for instance.

To turn a text into shape in Photoshop is nothing complicated, if you know how to do it, it only takes a few seconds. There are several ways in which you can convert a text in shape. The most simple way is to right click on the Text Layer name and choose Convert to Shape. This is the most simple method and the one that I use.

Great tutorial from which you can learn how to combine text and photo to create great typographic effects in Photoshop. In the article below you will find some of the best tutorials to create text photo effects using layer masks and channels.