Duplicate psd & edit text?

[KerryL]

I'm trying to create some title text images and I want the font and color of each one to match.

Can I duplicate a psd file and then edit the text?

So far I've had no luck, only being able to add new text on a new layer. How do I edit text on an existing layer?

 

[vakohles]

Select the T (Text Tool) and click anywhere on your canvas area Where Text doesn't exist and start typing. It creates a new text layer for you automatically. If you want to edit pre-existing text. Double click on the layer. Or Double Click where that text exists in the Canvas and Edit away.

HTH

 

[vakohles]

To Duplicate a .psd save as a copy or go to the History tab and click on the Creat New Document from the Current State at the bottom (two to the left of the trash). To Dup the layer itself copy the layer. Or Click and drag on the Canvas or holding down alt key for pc and cmnd key (?) for MAC.

 

[KerryL]

Thanks for your response.

I've created new layers like that, but that's now what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to edit existing text.

When I double-click on the layer, a Rename Layer box appears. When I select the layer with existing text and double-click on the canvas, the Type Tool box opens blank, or with whatever I last typed into it.

I can't seem to get to the existing text just to edit it.

(As you can tell, I am a Photoshop neophyte.)

 

[vakohles]

Click on the Thumbnail of the layer and not the text to the right of the layer. That is why it keeps having you try to rename the layer.

 

[KerryL]

The layer is named "Blue." If I double-click on the word Blue in the layer palette, the Rename Layer box appears. If I double-click to the left of it where the little layer icon is, the Rename Layer box still appears.

I'm sorry to be a pain, but no matter what I try I either have the option to rename the layer or the Text Tool opens--but not with the existing text in it.

FWIW, I'm using Adobe Photoshop Limited Edition 5.0.

 

[vakohles]

Using LE 5 - that could be the reason it isnt working. I have not used that one.

If I were you I would just set up what you want for each text layer individually if you are not able to select that text in the canvas area to edit after copying.

Sorry for not being able to help you further.

Good Luck!

 

[KerryL]

I do have access to Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Premier 6.0. Which one should I install in place of my LE 5.0?

 

[vakohles]

Not Premier! That is a film editing program.

Photoshop 6

 

[jimoblak]

What kind of access do you have to Photoshop and Premiere? It seems very odd that you would be using LE when you own a license to Photoshop and Premiere. It is a little disturbing that one would pay so much for licensed applications and not know what they do.

The text editing features are well documented in the Photoshop manual.

- - I hope this helps - -
_{(Complain to someone else if it doesn't)}

 

[KerryL]

Photoshop 5.0 LE came with my home PC but I never installed it at home. I brought it into work for some stuff I needed to do, and then recently when a coworker left I assumed his role, which requires Photoshop & Premier. It is the coworker's 6.0 & Premier disks that I came across.

FWIW, I've used Photoshop to edit photos before, but not to do what I'm now doing. Hence, the visit to Tek-Tips.

(I'm unfamiliar with Premier because I've never used it.)

Hope that adequately addresses your concerns.

 

[kiddpete]

When I am working with the text tool on the correct layer, I carefully click within the text I'm trying to change. If I click in the right place, Photoshop will make the whole text area look like I'm still entering the text; underlined etc. I can then highlight, replace, delete, or add text as I wish. It's a bit like getting the cursor positioned to highlight text within Word.

 

[kiddpete]

PS: If I don't click in the right place, PS will sometimes act a bit weird. Sometimes it creates a new layer; sometimes it draws little squares, etc. Just back out of that, and try again.

 

[KerryL]

Thanks for the tip, kiddpete. Unfortunately, no matter how careful I am, I'm unable to get the existing text highlighted on either of the layers that contain it. Instead I get the "rename layer" box or the other box that allows me to change attributes. But no editable text.

A coworker created the files for me; perhaps it has something to do with the way she created them, I don't know. All I know is, it shouldn't be this difficult to edit existing text on a layer...

Stll tearin' my hair out in MI,
Kerry

 

[vakohles]

Did the other person - Rasterize the text layers?

If they did that would explain why you are unable to edit the text layers. If that is what they did you are stuck with trying to recreate the text. They essentially broke the link to your editable text.

 

[KerryL]

No, but I found out that the files she sent me were created in Photoshop Vers 7, so the problem is probably that my Version 6 isn't recognizing some of the attributes or something. I've asked her if she can save the files back to Version 6 format and resend them.