Creating type
You can create horizontal or vertical type anywhere in an image. Depending on how you use the type tools, you can enter point type or paragraph type. Point type is useful for entering a single word or a line of characters; paragraph type is useful for entering and formatting the type as one or more paragraphs.
Type entered as point type (top) and in a bounding box (bottom)
When you create type, a new type layer is added to the Layers palette. In Photoshop, you can also create a selection border in the shape of the type.
Note: In Photoshop, a type layer is not created for images in Multichannel, Bitmap, or Indexed Color mode, because these modes do not support layers. In these image modes, type appears on the background.
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