Placing text on an Image in Photoshop

With Photoshop its is possible to place text on top of and image.

 

 Lets look at how we place text on this image

 

On the main tool bar is an eye dropper icon 1 that lets you select a colour from the image. Below this are two small rectangles of colour - one is the foreground colour ( on the left) and the other is the background colour below it on the right).

Here we have selected two colours from the image, one lighter no 2 - and the other darker no 3. We can select any colour that we like.
From the main tool bar we select T for text - the square around this indicates it is activated.

Selecting this activates the text tool bar along the top which allows us to select vertical horizontal axis, the text font, style regular- italic etc. font size, etc. Play with these until you get a sense of all the possibilities.

 

When we type or paste in some text, this comes up in a separate layer.

 

We can select this layer and move it to where we want it.
We can also duplicate the text layer if we need to, which gives us a second layer on top of the first layer.
When we click on the square icon it allows us to alter the text at any point.
Here the colour of the second text layer has been changed to a different colour, and moved slightly to give the impression of a text shadow.
From here its easy to activate each text layer, alter the size, text font colour, style etc.
Here is the same font as above in a different set of colours.

 

Here we see text placed on the sky.

 

 In some situations a text box is used to create an area of strong contrast and the text is placed into this
To suggest that the text is part of a 3rd dimension, text can also be made to wrap or weave between visual elements in a photograph.

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