Grab a handle one of the corners and drag. With your text layer or text selected, go to the main menu, and select EDIT>Transform>Skew. You can easily create attention-grabbing text by angling or slanting it. Hovering over an item will cause a tool tip to pop up that gives you a brief explanation of what each does. So, choose your text, and try going through all these options. If you’re using Paragraph text, you’ll need to select the text you want to transform. If you’re editing Point text, your text layer needs to be selected for these edits to work. This will open the Character Transform panel. Click the icon that looks like a sheet of paper (above the #6 above). You’ll find this box in the context menu – so make sure you have your Text Tool selected, and look where number 6 is in the diagram above. So let’s explore the Text Character pop up box where you can try out all the nifty tricks. Sometimes the font you are using might be missing the italic version. You can also instantly change a block of upper case text to lowercase, and vice versa. To give your text variety, you can also change the spacing of the individual letters, the height of the letters, and the width of letters. It’s a little miracle! Your text is now precisely centered horizontally on your document. Drag the left box to the left edge of your page, then up in the context menu, click the CENTER text icon where number 5 is on the diagram above. To center your text, just grab one of the handles and drag it to the right edge of your page. Paragraph text is also easier to center on your page. You can use the MOVE tool to position the entire block of text anywhere on your page. Because you can change the size of the text box, you have great flexibility using paragraph text.
You can see this is great for larger areas of text. You can grab the text box handles (the little boxes on the middles and corners) to define the size of the area in which you want the text to appear. See how the text is constrained by the size of the box? This is Paragraph text. Open another document, click on the Text tool if it’s not already clicked, now take the text tool and DRAG it out to make a rectangle.
You have just created text using the POINT TEXT tool. To get text on a new line you have to hit ENTER. If you keep typing, the text will continue along in one long single line. Your text will have an underline and a cursor will show where you are inserting the next letter. Open a new document in Photoshop, and click on the Text tool (keyboard shortcut = T). You simply click on the Text Tool in the tools palette, click back on your image and start typing. The first way is how most people use text, by using what is called the Point text tool. There are 2 ways of adding text, and it’s critical that you know when to use one way, and when to choose the other. So now that you know the lay of the land, lets add some text and play with it. There are a few more tools in here but we’ll talk about them later.