Adobe photoshop elements User Manual

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

Use fill shortcuts. To fill with the foreground 

color, press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or 
Option+Delete (Mac OS); to fill with the 
background color, press Ctrl+Backspace 
(Windows) or Command+Delete (Mac OS).

Note: After committing a type layer, clicking in the 
text area with the move tool ( ) will select the type 
layer. A bounding box appears around the selected 
text if Show Bounding Box is selected in the options 
bar. Clicking outside the bounding box will deselect 
the type layer if Auto Select Layer is selected in the 
options bar. You can always click in the text area to 
select a type layer if the Relaxed Text Selection 
preference is selected. If this preference is not selected, 
you need to click the actual type strokes to select a 
type layer.

You can insert new text, change existing text, and 
delete text in type layers. If any styles are applied to 
a type layer, all text will inherit the style attributes.

Select the horizontal type tool ( ) or the 

vertical type tool ( ). If you click in an active type, 
the type tool changes at the insertion point to 
match the orientation of the layer.

Select the type layer in the Layers palette, 

or click in the text flow to automatically select a 
type layer. 

Position the insertion point in the text, and do 

one of the following:

Click to set the insertion point.

Select one or more characters you want to edit.

Enter text as desired.

Commit the changes to the type layer. (See 

The orientation of a type layer determines the 
direction of type lines in relation to the document 
window. When a type layer is vertical, the type 
lines flow up and down; when a type layer is 
horizontal, the type lines flow from left to right. 

Select the type layer in the Layers palette.

Do one of the following:

Select a type tool, and click the Flip Orientation 

button (

) in the options bar.

Choose Layer > Type > Horizontal, or choose 

Layer > Type > Vertical.