6.0 Letterhead
page fourSelect the layer that you just made with one word on it. Click the Delete, or Trash button at the bottom of the Layers palette. Click “Yes” in the alert box that appears.
Choose the type tool in the toolbox. Set its options bar as shown below. Type the word that you just deleted back into the sentence. If it’s too big, choose a smaller font size. That will be in the box showing 30 pt in the example below. Move the type by placing your cursor a little bit away from the type. The pointer will change to the move tool’s icon when you’re far enough away. Drag to move the text. Click the big check mark at the end of the options bar when you’re happy with the type.
Don’t worry about exact placement; you can move it after you’ve clicked the check mark by selecting the move tool. With the move tool selected, you can use the arrow keys for precise placement.
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Text is always created on a new layer, so, the word that was just added
is alone on its own layer. Layer styles can be applied to it. Go to the
Styles palette, and start clicking
the buttons. Bombs away.
Below are the end results, and samples of
other sentences. As you can see, some of them have two styles applied.
Each layer can have its own styles. It’s kind of silly but a lot
of fun.
[added] I noticed, after I had created this tutorial, that in
Photoshop v. 6.0, you can reposition an image to print anywhere on the
page by repositioning it wherever you want it in the Print Options dialog
box.
To do this, choose File > Print Options.
The Adobe manual says you can simply drag the image in the preview window
to where you want it on the page.
However, you need to first deselect the
Center Image check box, and then have the Show Bounding Box
check box selected before you can drag the image. Be careful to place
the cursor within the bounding box in the preview window, not on the bounding
box edge, or you’ll resize your image when you drag. I think you
can do a better job of getting the letterhead-to-page proportions right
by working with the image as described in this tutorial.
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