Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file.
- Photoshop User Guide
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
- Photoshop on mobile (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop on the iPad (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
- Get to know the workspace
- System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
- Create, open, and export documents
- Add photos
- Work with layers
- Draw and paint with brushes
- Make selections and add masks
- Retouch your composites
- Work with adjustment layers
- Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
- Apply transform operations
- Crop and rotate your composites
- Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
- Work with Type layers
- Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
- Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
- Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
- Manage app settings
- Touch shortcuts and gestures
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Edit your image size
- Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
- Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
- Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop on the iPad
- Work with Camera Raw files
- Create and work with Smart Objects
- Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
- Auto adjustment commands in Photoshop on the iPad
- Smudge areas in your images with Photoshop on the iPad
- Saturate or desaturate your images using Sponge tool
- Content aware fill for iPad
- Photoshop on the web (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop (beta) (not available in mainland China)
- Generative AI (not available in mainland China)
- Common questions on generative AI in Photoshop
- Generative Fill in Photoshop on the desktop
- Generate Image with descriptive text prompts
- Generative Expand in Photoshop on the desktop
- Replace background with Generate background
- Get new variations with Generate Similar
- Generative Fill in Photoshop on the iPad
- Generative Expand in Photoshop on the iPad
- Generative AI features in Photoshop on the web
- Content authenticity (not available in mainland China)
- Cloud documents (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
- Photoshop cloud documents | Workflow questions
- Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
- Upgrade cloud storage for Photoshop
- Unable to create or save a cloud document
- Solve Photoshop cloud document errors
- Collect cloud document sync logs
- Invite others to edit your cloud documents
- Share files and comment in-app
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Preferences
- Learn faster with the Photoshop Discover Panel
- Create documents
- Place files
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Tool galleries
- Performance preferences
- Contextual Task Bar
- Use tools
- Presets
- Grid and guides
- Touch gestures
- Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Technology previews
- Metadata and notes
- Place Photoshop images in other applications
- Rulers
- Show or hide non-printing Extras
- Specify columns for an image
- Undo and history
- Panels and menus
- Position elements with snapping
- Position with the Ruler tool
- Image and color basics
- How to resize images
- Work with raster and vector images
- Image size and resolution
- Acquire images from cameras and scanners
- Create, open, and import images
- View images
- Invalid JPEG Marker error | Opening images
- Viewing multiple images
- Customize color pickers and swatches
- High dynamic range images
- Match colors in your image
- Convert between color modes
- Color modes
- Erase parts of an image
- Blending modes
- Choose colors
- Customize indexed color tables
- Image information
- Distort filters are unavailable
- About color
- Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
- Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels
- Sample
- Color mode or Image mode
- Color cast
- Add a conditional mode change to an action
- Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
- Bit depth and preferences
- Layers
- Layer basics
- Nondestructive editing
- Create and manage layers and groups
- Select, group, and link layers
- Place images into frames
- Layer opacity and blending
- Mask layers
- Apply Smart Filters
- Layer comps
- Move, stack, and lock layers
- Mask layers with vector masks
- Manage layers and groups
- Layer effects and styles
- Edit layer masks
- Extract assets
- Reveal layers with clipping masks
- Generate image assets from layers
- Work with Smart Objects
- Blending modes
- Combine multiple images into a group portrait
- Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
- Align and distribute layers
- Copy CSS from layers
- Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
- Knockout to reveal content from other layers
- Selections
- Get started with selections
- Make selections in your composite
- Select and Mask workspace
- Select with the marquee tools
- Select with the lasso tools
- Adjust pixel selections
- Move, copy, and delete selected pixels
- Create a temporary quick mask
- Select a color range in an image
- Convert between paths and selection borders
- Channel basics
- Save selections and alpha channel masks
- Select the image areas in focus
- Duplicate, split, and merge channels
- Channel calculations
- Get started with selections
- Image adjustments
- Replace object colors
- Perspective warp
- Reduce camera shake blurring
- Healing brush examples
- Export color lookup tables
- Adjust image sharpness and blur
- Understand color adjustments
- Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
- Adjust shadow and highlight detail
- Levels adjustment
- Adjust hue and saturation
- Adjust vibrance
- Adjust color saturation in image areas
- Make quick tonal adjustments
- Apply special color effects to images
- Enhance your image with color balance adjustments
- High dynamic range images
- View histograms and pixel values
- Match colors in your image
- Crop and straighten photos
- Convert a color image to black and white
- Adjustment and fill layers
- Curves adjustment
- Blending modes
- Target images for press
- Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
- Adjust HDR exposure and toning
- Dodge or burn image areas
- Make selective color adjustments
- Adobe Camera Raw
- Camera Raw system requirements
- What's new in Camera Raw
- Introduction to Camera Raw
- Create panoramas
- Supported lenses
- Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw
- Radial Filter in Camera Raw
- Manage Camera Raw settings
- Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw
- Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw
- Rotate, crop, and adjust images
- Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw
- Process versions in Camera Raw
- Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
- Image repair and restoration
- Image enhancement and transformation
- Drawing and painting
- Paint symmetrical patterns
- Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
- About drawing
- Draw and edit shapes
- Painting tools
- Create and modify brushes
- Blending modes
- Add color to paths
- Edit paths
- Paint with the Mixer Brush
- Brush presets
- Gradients
- Gradient interpolation
- Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths
- Draw with the Pen tools
- Create patterns
- Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
- Manage paths
- Manage pattern libraries and presets
- Draw or paint with a graphics tablet
- Create textured brushes
- Add dynamic elements to brushes
- Gradient
- Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
- Paint with a pattern
- Sync presets on multiple devices
- Migrate presets, actions, and settings
- Text
- Filters and effects
- Saving and exporting
- Color Management
- Web, screen, and app design
- Video and animation
- Printing
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
Copy, paste, edit, resize, or add text effects using the Type tool.
Try out the latest features and enhancements.
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Select the Horizontal Type tool or the Vertical Type tool from the Tools panel and draw a point text box on the canvas to add text.
NoteA type layer is created in the Layers panel, which can be identified with the icon.
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Type the preferred text in the text box, and adjust the text settings in the options bar.
NoteTo turn off the Lorem ipsum sample text, select Preferences > Type, deselect Fill new type layers with placeholder text, and select OK.
Create text layouts that resize and reflow typography when the text bounding box is adjusted using Dynamic Text .
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file.
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Select the Horizontal Type tool or the Vertical Type tool from the Tools panel and draw a point text box on the canvas to add text.
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Type the preferred text in the text box, and adjust the text settings in the options bar.
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Select Type > Convert to Dynamic Text to convert the text box into a bounding box.
NoteYou can also select Contextual Task Bar.
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Select and drag the corners or sides of the bounding box to automatically resize and adjust font size, spacing, and layout to fit.
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Adjust word gap and line gap spacing through controls in the Dynamic Text section of the Properties panel. You can also adjust Baseline Shift and Tracking, but not Leading.
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Make additional detailed text edits from the Properties panel, such as alignment, bullets, and numbering.
NoteTo resize text, select specific words within the boundary box, because changing the font size for the entire text layer won’t apply.
Don’t convert right-to-left text to Dynamic Text, as this isn’t supported yet.
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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In the Layers panel, select the text layer you want to edit on the canvas.
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Select the Type tool to click and drag over text and highlight specific portions, or Cmd + A (macOS) and Ctrl + A (Windows) to highlight the complete text in the layer.
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Adjust font type, size, color, and alignment from the options bar or the Character panel.
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the Type tool from the Tools panel to create a new text layer.
To edit existing text, select a text layer from the Layers panel.
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Place the cursor where you want to add list items.
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Select Window > Properties > Bullets and Numbering to apply a list style.
Select Enter or Return to move the cursor to a new line and add the next list item.
NoteTo prevent Photoshop from automatically formatting text into lists, deselect Preferences > Type > Automatic detection of Bulleted and Numbered lists while typing.
Copy and paste text from a non-Photoshop file
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Copy the text from a source file, such as Word, PDF, or a web page.
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In the Photoshop document, select the Type tool from the Tools panel to create a new text layer.
To edit existing text, select a text layer from the Layers panel.
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Select Edit > Paste or Cmd + V (macOS) and Ctrl + V (Windows).
Copy and paste text from another Photoshop document
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In the source document, select Edit > Copy or Cmd + C (macOS) and Ctrl + C (Windows).
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In the destination document, create or select text layer from the Layers panel.
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Select Edit > Paste or Cmd + V (macOS) and Ctrl + V (Windows).
Resize text in a type layer
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the Move tool from the Tools panel.
NoteAuto-select: Layer and Show Transform Controls options are selected by default.
This streamlines object selection and transformation during layout work.
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Select the text you want to resize.
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In the transform box that appears, drag an anchor point to resize text proportionally, or do the following:
- Select the Shift key to resize text non-proportionally.
- Select the Alt key to keep the center of the text in the same place when resizing text.
- Select the Command (macOS) or Control (Windows) keys to explore skewed angles when resizing text.
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Select the Commit icon from the options bar to save edits.
Resize specific letters, numbers, or words in a type layer
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the Type tool from the Tools panel.
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Select the type layer in the Layers panel. Then, on the canvas, select the specific letters, numbers, or words you want to resize.
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Select the preferred text size option from the font size dropdown beside the options bar.
NoteSelect Window > Character to make more precise adjustments.
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Select the Commit icon from the options bar to save the edits.
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the type layer in the Layers panel.
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Select the Move tool from the Tools panel.
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Select and drag the text on the canvas to reposition it.
NoteUse the arrow keys to move the transform box precisely (select Shift when using the arrow keys to move in larger increments).
Change the color of the entire text
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the Type tool from the Tools panel.
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Select the type layer in the Layers panel.
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Select the color swatch from the options bar to open the Color Picker (Text Color) dialog box.
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Use the color slider and color field to select a color. The text color will update in real time on the canvas.
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Select OK to apply the new color to the entire text.
Change the color of one or more characters
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the Type tool from the Tools panel.
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Select the type layer in the Layers panel.
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Select and drag the cursor to select specific characters, words, or numbers you want to change.
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Select the color swatch from the options bar to open the Color Picker (Text Color) dialog box.
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Use the color slider and color field to select a color. The text color will update in real time on the canvas.
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Select OK to apply the new color to the entire text.
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the type layer in the Layers panel with the paragraph you want to justify.
NoteTo justify text, it must be in paragraph text format.
Convert a word or short phrase (point text) into a paragraph to justify the text. Select the type layer, then Type > Convert to Paragraph Text to do this.
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Select Window > Paragraph to view the Paragraph panel.
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Select alignment options (left, right, center, or justify). The text alignment will update in real time on the canvas.
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Select File > Open to open a Photoshop file containing the text you want to edit.
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Select the type layer in the Layers panel.
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Select Edit > Free Transform to display a bounding box with transform handles around the text.
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Move the cursor just outside a corner of the box until it turns into a curved arrow.
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Select and drag the curved arrow to rotate the text. For a more precise rotation, use the options given in the options bar.
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Select the Commit icon from the options bar to save the edits.