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lopinop
Dec 9, 2003
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was doing fine, editing some letters. I took one of those for dummies book cover pics. I wanted to change the the learn ———— for dummies into a cover page for a portfolio i’m handing in. At first it was good, now when i click the horizontal type tool it has some square surrounding the I that shows where your moving your mouse, and i cant highlight text that is already there to edit it. So when i first hit the text tool i clicked on a portion of the page and started typing, highlighted it to change some sizes, color etc and it was good. Now i added some more stuff and saw that the text i typed before was a bit small, so i clicked the text tool again, but it comes out with that square around the I, and i can’t highlight the text, i can only create a rectangle now. Any help? thanks
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BLUDVLZ
Dec 9, 2003
A few things to check:

First of all, are you working on the right layer? And is that layer still a text layer? You haven’t flattened your image or merged that layer with another layer, have you?

Is your text layer locked? Look for a small black lock on the right side of the layer in the Layers palette.

The rectangle you’re creating is a text box. Helpful if you’re doing any text that will need formatting.
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lopinop
Dec 9, 2003
there is only 1 layer, it does look locked, anyway to unlock so i can edit the text?
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lopinop
Dec 9, 2003
opened up original pic before i edited and i couldnt add a layer or anything, after clicking the layers toolbar, none of the selection were applicable
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BLUDVLZ
Dec 10, 2003
Does the layer say "Background?"
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LenHewitt
Dec 10, 2003
Lopingo,

and i cant highlight text that is already there to edit it. <<

You won’t be able to edit ‘text’ that has been scanned in or photographed, because it isn’t text – it’s just a ‘picture of text’
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lopinop
Dec 10, 2003
len, no what i meant was i myself used photoshop to add text. Then when i came back to the text i added, i couldnt edit it. i’m not referring to text already in the pic when i opened it
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lopinop
Dec 10, 2003
the layer says index not background
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dave_milbut
Dec 10, 2003
it’s part of the image. you can’t add a text layer to indexed mode (gif) files.
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LenHewitt
Dec 11, 2003
Converting to Indexed colour (i.e. Saving as GIF) will have rasterized the text. It is now a ‘picture of text’ and not text.

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