Converting Rasterized Type Layer to Editable Layer?

[pfeffa]

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.

 

[dimoj]

I don't get it.

Those are supposed to be text hyperlinks. i.e. It is created by HTML code. Not part of a PSD that will become a jpeg or gif or png.

Where did this 'supposed' template come from? Off the web I presume. All you will end up creating with that template and PSD is a whole page of images which is just not practical. You need to be using a dedicated web page software like Dreamweaver. Or even better for beginners, by using a template that is provided by your web host, where you can go to a admin area of your web server and make changes to the pages on-line.

I think you may be way off base pfeffa. I'd contact your web host.

(But just to answer your actual question anyway... you are right that that text has been rasterised, so NO you cannot turn it back to text. You will have to delete that layer and type out a new menu yourself).

 

[pfeffa]

Dear dimoj:

Thank you so much for your fine explanation and advice. Let me first explain that I do in fact use Dreamweaver MX. I purchased the template from BoxedArt at:

(

http://www.boxedart.com).

I think that the author had inadvertently rasterized the type layer, making it impossible to edit it in an HTML editor. I have written to them, and they promised they would try to correct the layer in question. However, currently, they are undergoing a round-the-clock DDos denial of service of attack by their main competitor. It's been going on for ten days and who knows how long it will last. I thought that perhaps there was a workaround, but I see that I may just have to wait till BoxedArt gets back to normal and corrects the template.

Thank you so much.

Benjamin