PhotoPlus X6 User Guide - Serif

To edit existing text:
Painting, Drawing, and Text 151
1. With the text layer to be edited as the active layer, choose the standard Text
Tool and move the mouse pointer over the text until it changes to the
(I-beam) cursor.
2. Click on or drag to select areas of text—this lets you insert or overwrite
selected text, respectively. Equally, you can set new text attributes (font,
point size, bold/italic/underline, alignment, anti-alias, or colour) to be
adopted by the selected text area—all made from the Text context toolbar.
Fine-tune your character size and positioning by using the Character
tab. If hidden, make this tab visible via Window>Studio Tabs.
To change text's solid colour:
1. Select all or part of any text.
2. Click the colour swatch on the context toolbar to display the Colour
Selector dialog. (See Choosing colours on p. 120.)
3. Select your new colour and click OK.
To swap to a gradient colour:
This applies a gradient fill to all of your text on the layer and not to
selected text.
1. On the Layers tab, right-click the Text layer and choose Edit Fill.
2. Change the Fill Type from Solid to one of Linear, Radial, Conical, or
Square.
3. Click on the Fill gradient swatch and select a preset gradient fill or create
your own gradient from the dialog (see Filling a region on p. 135). The
gradient fill is immediately applied to your text.
To convert any text layer to a standard layer:
• Right-click on the layer name and choose Rasterize from the menu.