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Adding and editing text

You can add text to enhance images. When you add text, you can specify its font, size, and alignment, as well as the character spacing and line spacing.

Text is created as an object by default; therefore, you can move, size, scale, rotate, flip, skew, distort, and apply perspective; however, you will lose distortion or perspective effects if you add, remove, or edit text characters. For more information about working with objects, see “Working with objects.” Text can also be rendered as an editable area of a mask. For more information about creating editable areas, see “Working with masks.”

After you add text, you can edit the text by changing its color, painting it, or filling it with patterns and textures.


To add text

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Click the Text tool Photo Paint loc pgx text tool Adding and editing text.
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Choose a font from the Font name list box on the property bar.
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Choose a font size from the Font size list box on the property bar.
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Click in the image window, and type the text.

You can also
Align multiple lines of text
On the property bar, open the Alignment picker, and click a setting. Text is aligned with the bounding box.
Adjust character spacing
On the property bar, type a value in the Character/Line spacing box.
Adjust line spacing
On the property bar, type a value in the Character/Line spacing box.

Photo Paint tip Adding and editing text

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You render the text as an editable area by selecting the text with the Text tool Photo Paint loc pgx text tool Adding and editing text and clicking the Create text mask button Photo Paint loc pgx create text mask Adding and editing text on the property bar. This produces a text-shaped editable area to which you can apply effects.

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Text is created with the Text tool.


To change the color of text

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Click the Text tool Photo Paint loc pgx text tool Adding and editing text.
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Point to the text until the pointer becomes a cursor.
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Select the text.
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In the color control area, double-click the Foreground color swatch Photo Paint pgx foreground color Adding and editing text, and choose a color.

To paint text

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In the toolbox, click the Object pick tool Photo Paint pgx pick tool Adding and editing text.
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Select the text.
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Enable the Lock object transparency button Photo Paint pgx lock transparency Adding and editing text in the Objects docker.
If the Objects docker is not open, click Window Photo Paint onestep Adding and editing text Dockers Photo Paint onestep Adding and editing text Objects.
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In the toolbox, click the Paint tool Photo Paint pgx paint tool Adding and editing text.
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Specify any tool settings on the property bar.
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In the color control area, double-click the Foreground color swatch Photo Paint pgx foreground color Adding and editing text, and choose a color.
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Drag across the text.

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Ensure that text is correct before you paint. After painting, the paint effects are lost if you add, remove, or edit text characters.

To fill text

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In the toolbox, click the Object pick tool Photo Paint pgx pick tool Adding and editing text.
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Select the text.
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In the toolbox, click the Fill tool Photo Paint pgx fill tool Adding and editing text.
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Specify any tool settings on the property bar.
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Click each text character that you want to fill.
You must click directly in a character; otherwise, the fill is applied to the entire image. You can undo an unwanted fill by clicking Edit Photo Paint onestep Adding and editing text Undo flood fill.

Photo Paint note Adding and editing text

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Ensure that text is correct before filling. After filling, the fill effects are lost if you add, remove, or edit text characters.

Photo Paint tip Adding and editing text

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You can quickly zoom into a text character by clicking the Zoom tool Photo Paint pgx zoom tool Adding and editing text in the toolbox and dragging in the image to enclose the text character.
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You can render the text as an editable area by selecting the text object with the Text tool Photo Paint loc pgx text tool Adding and editing text and clicking the Create text mask button Photo Paint loc pgx create text mask Adding and editing text on the property bar. This produces a text-shaped editable area to which you can apply fills.

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You can paint text or fill it with patterns and textures.

Adding and editing text