Changing the type color
The type you enter gets its color from the current foreground color; however, you can change the type color before or after you enter type. When editing existing type layers, you can change the color of individual, selected characters or all type in a layer.
To change the type color: Do one of the following: - Click the Color selection box in the options bar or Character palette, and select a color using the color picker. In ImageReady, you can also select an option from the Color selection box pop-up menu: Foreground Color, Background Color, Other (to use the color picker), or a color from the pop-up palette.
- Use fill shortcuts. To fill with the foreground color, press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or Option+Delete (Mac OS); to fill with the background color, press Ctrl+Backspace (Windows) or Command+Delete (Mac OS).
- Apply an overlay layer style to the type layer to apply a color, gradient, or pattern on top of the existing color. Applying an overlay layer style affects all characters in the type layer; you cannot use this method to change the color of individual characters. For more information on applying an overlay layer style, see Using layer effects and styles.
- Click the foreground color selection box in the toolbox, and select a color using the color picker. Or click a color in the Color palette, the Swatches palette, or (ImageReady) the Color Table palette. To use this method to change the color of an existing type layer, you must first select characters on that layer.
- (ImageReady) You can drag a color from the toolbox color selection box, the Color palette, the Color Table palette, or the Swatches palette, and drop it onto a type layer to automatically apply a color overlay style.
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