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The text tool is one of the most powerful
tools in your toolbox because it opens the door to a multitude of
pre-designed font libraries. These font libraries allow you
to create graphical versions of letters using pre-designed formats.
Photoshop handles these font libraries just as it would any image.
Thus you can do all the same things with fonts that you do with
any other image in Photoshop.
To place text based images in your canvas you
need only select the text tool from the toolbox and click on the
canvas in the area you want the text to appear.
When you do so, the Type Tool Dialog will
appear.
This dialog allows you to specify what
characters you want displayed and many other font related
options such as font type, size, alignment, style and
characteristics.
We are going to spend a lot more time
looking at how to manipulate text tomorrow, so for now, just
get comfortable with the tool.
Notice that when you hit the "OK" button in the
Type Tool Dialog, Photoshop will place the text within the canvas,
but the text will be selected. Since it is selected, you can certainly
drag it around and place it anywhere you want. We will talk more about
selection tomorrow.
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