Comments on: 12 Tips for Photoshop Text

By: peter winters

peter winters — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:36:18 +0000

The suggestion to clear all of the Adobe_font*.lst worked for PS CS6 on my Windows 8 machine. No more “text engine not initiated…” error. Thank you

By: Steve Douglass

Steve Douglass — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:04:39 +0000

I’m having the same problem with getting horizontal line instead of text. Did you find a solution?

By: Murrieta Wedding Photographer

Murrieta Wedding Photographer — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:53:52 +0000

Do you plan on doing video tutorials in the future? I am always struggling with the simple photoshop text stuff

By: Davina Green

Davina Green — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:15:24 +0000

Great tips, but I wonder if anyone can help. When I’m typing text in a layer, I like to add line breaks on occasion, to seperate words on a heading, for example, but when I hit my Return key to start a new line, it commits the text!! I don’t want to commit the text at that point.
Just to be clear, this is my RETURN key that’s behaving strangely, not my enter key. As far as I can see this shouldn’t happen, and doesn’t happen on my other PC. Can anyone suggest a way of fixing this?

By: susan s.

susan s. — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:07:37 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you for solving my most vexing text problem. The alt/com/shift solution worked. I wish I knew what I did to create the problem, but at least it’s fixed.

By: Shawn McConnell

Shawn McConnell — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:39:19 +0000

Thank you for the advice, I have been using this to make text boxes for customer twitter pages. I like to add more info on the side bar and this is a perfect way to do so.

By: Atwixtor

Atwixtor — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:49:25 +0000

Any tips on copying text FROM Photoshop TO an HTML document? It seems forced line-breaks in Photoshop translate to unknown characters in a standard HTML document (UTF-8). Is there a setting to choose Photoshop’s text encoding?

By: France

France — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:55:42 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been looking for simple instructions for irregular text paths, and yours did the trick!!!

By: jazzybossa

jazzybossa — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:38:04 +0000

I’m trying to create a book cover in photoshop from a .jpg of an artist’s image and taking it into InDesign but my text is looking really rough in ID. Its monotype corsiva, although Times Roman is just as bad. I’ve tried various anti aliasing and saving as EPS to no avail. Any advice gratefully received.

By: Ejaz

Ejaz — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:12:32 +0000

Thanks, that did the trick!

By: Stevenwg

Stevenwg — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Hello, I’m new with AI(CS5). When I setup a new document color page, I can’t see the text or graphic that I’ve placed on the page. Example, My new document which I have “stimulate colored page” BLACK and when I type or paste in text or graphics, I can’t see them or the graphics become translucent, that’s I can see the back ground color.
Please advice, thank you !!

By: Sofia

Sofia — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:27:16 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you for the tips – really needed them!

By: Nirman

Nirman — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:42:08 +0000

Hello,

I want to replicate the clarity of text, that a browser can render, in Photoshop. bold texts are not clear in photoshop with anti-aliasing. Without anti-aliasing the text look jagged.

If I’m unclear here. The way the heading of this page “12 Tips for Photoshop Text” is looking in the browser does not look the same in photoshop. How to achieve that?

Thanks much!

By: Rakishi

Rakishi — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:55:20 +0000

Thanks, helped alot!

By: Itan vs Poet

Itan vs Poet — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:06:35 +0000

I had the same problem. Was googling and came upon this site and andy was right: It’s not the fix all.

I noticed that instead of going into a line below the text came into the same line right over the already existing text.Of course, it was a mess.

What I did was, once the text box was highlighted, selected the Paragraph menu and changed the “set the leading” to auto.

Viola!

I hope this was of help to anyone wid the same prob.