Gary P Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 Alright guys, I'll freely admit I'm a complete n00b when it comes to PS. I was rolling along quite nicely following some texture tutorials and such, but I cannot for the life of me get any kind of text to work and have no idea what to do to fix it. I'm guessing I screwed up some setting at one point, but who knows. This is what I end up with: The first pic is a normal view with 12 pt font, the second pic is ridiculously zoomed in with 72 pt font so you can see what it looks like. I've scoured the net and I even have Adobe's 'Classroom In a Book' and I haven't found anything that addresses this, it usually just says 'click where you want text to appear and then type away'. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. (This is PS CS) Thanks, Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 Do you get a cursor when you click the text tool on the page? Usually you just click where you want the type to go, and the cursor appears, and you type. I just recently got CS, but have barely used it yet. I'll open it up at work tomorrow and see if I can figure it out. All I have at home is version 7. The first picture looks like an empty text anchor from Illustrator, which is Adobe's vector-based "image" application. I know that since version 6, Photoshop has had varying amounts of vector output support, but I have never used the feature. Maybe they're making the type tool act the same as it does in Illustrator and InDesign. But even if that's the case, you should be able to click the text tool on the page and type, no problem. I'm going to attach a layered Photoshop (.psd) file with some type in it, so you can modify it or cut and paste it into your document. It might help you figure it out in the meantime. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary P Posted February 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 I do get a cursor, but it's micro-sized. Basically that black square in both the pics is where I've placed my type tool and started typing, the resulting line is the actual 'text'. This happens no matter the font type/size I pick so I dunno what the hell I've done to cause this. I'm stuck at work for the day so I wont be able to grab your attachment, but I'll definitely give it a look when I get home tonight. Thanks, Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 I tried in CS this morning, I get the same kind of anchor point... but with type. You're not typing in white are you? When you select the type tool, on the top of the screen, about in the middle, there's a coloured box indicating the type colour. By default it's usually black though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary P Posted February 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 Meh, I tried everything I could think of with no luck. Finally decided to uninstall/reinstall and that did the trick. I still have no idea if I caused the problem or if my install was just hosed, but at least it's woking now Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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