Dear friends:

I would appreciate your help with a technical hurdle beyond my limited skills, namely, converting a rasterized type layer back to an editable type layer.

I am close to completing my jewelry web site at:

<http://www.immortalgems.com>

Please click on Diamonds and Weddings.

This site is built on a template and that is why I cannot solve this issue myself by just redoing the section in question. I've been unable in any way to figure out how to edit the menu midway on the Diamonds page and on the Weddings page. As you can see there is a menu on the left (next to the little girl holding a gift box). This menu forms one single, uncut slice. Yet, it is a real menu, not a piece of decoration. I've tried my damnest to edit it following the instruction in the Photoshop manual and in Weinmann and Lourekas' Photoshop for Windows & Mac Visual Quickstart Guide. Am I mistaken or is this not a menu that is supposed to be edited? If so, how in the world can this be done. Please see screenshot at:

<http://www.websher.net/temp/PS1.jpg>
<http://www.websher.net/temp/PS2.jpg>

Please look closely at the first entry on the menu. You can see the marks left by the attempted highlighting of the text. What I saw looked like the cropping tool, not a highlight. Yet, the T text tool is on as well as the layer in the Layer palette.

If you would like to look at the original PSD file, it is at:

<http://www.immortalgems.com/original/PSD/4.psd>

Be sure to hold the Shift key when downloading.

Apparently, the author of the template had mistakenly rasterized the menu type layer. How do I UNrasterize it or how do I recreate an edited version of this type layer? Please note that the menu is part of the huge slice that concludes this PSD page.

Can you help me understand what I should do or perhaps suggest a tutorial online where I can find out how to do it. My problem is that I don't fully understand the problem and I don't know how to proceed.

Hope you can help.

Thank you so much.

Benjamin

Delphi123

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