Editing existing text

Hello

I have Photoshop version 4. Sometime ago I added text to an image, and now I want to edit that text. But everytime I try to edit it nothing happens. If I try to edit it by using the type tool it keeps asking about a new layer etc.

I have been everywhere for a solution to this, including the actual adobe support, and found nothing. I can not believe editing text is not so simple or that I cannot find a solution to this.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff

I don't use photoshop often and it's not installed on my system at present, but I think it would depend on how you saved your original file. If it's a .psd file, then the text layer should be intact and editable. But if it has been saved as a .jpg, .bmp or .png or something similar, then the whole thing becomes a raster image, and only the pixels are editable.
I'm sure someone more adept with Photoshop than I will be along here soon to offer you advice.
Saludos,
Bob.

Thanks Bob

You may be right, it may have to be a .psd file, But any confirmation on this would be grateful.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi - welcome to TG Jeff

yes - if the file has a text layer you have text to edit, otherwise you simply have a new image

Jeff, I just tried this in Paintshop Pro which I'm pretty sure works the same way as Photoshop. It creates the text on a new vector layer and not on the photo itself. If it is saved in the native paintshop pro file, (psp image) it preserves the vector layer and you can edit the text on reopening. I'm sure Photoshop is the same in this regard.
Saludos,
Welcome to talkgraphics, by the way.
Bob.

if you go to the layers pallet the text layer will show and if you double click on the text layer it will select the text for editing then just click your text tool on the image at what neads changing.

If you are opening a raster (also known as a bitmapped image) file you can no longer edit text, only the pixels of the image.

If you are opening a .psd file it would depend on whether or not the original layers are still intact. If you flattened the layers that would be the same as trying to edit a raster image.

Thanks guy for your response.

I'll give them ago. Finally I got an answer from a decent forum.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Guys

I tried the above but nothing works.

I tried paintshop pro by opening the image with text. The image has a pspimage extension but I still cannot edit the text.

I also tried photoshop, but when I selected the text layer it kept throwing up another box saying 'new layer'. The initial file is saved as a psd extension.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff

any chance you could post it up so we can take a look?

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Originally Posted by jeffuk123

Hi Guys

I tried the above but nothing works.

I tried paintshop pro by opening the image with text. The image has a pspimage extension but I still cannot edit the text.

I also tried photoshop, but when I selected the text layer it kept throwing up another box saying 'new layer'. The initial file is saved as a psd extension.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff

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read my post double click on the layer in the layers palet

Hi

Sorry for the late reply guys.

I actually did as you suggested some time ago and double-clicked on the layer in the layers pallet but without success!!!

Jeff

As Steve (handrawn) suggests, it would be best if you could post
the problematical file here so we might be able to deduce exactly
what the problem is.
Saludos,
Bob.

If you zoom in on your text to say 400% and the text starts to brake up jaged edges that means the text layers have changed to standard layers and can not be edited

Hello

Yeah they are jagged edges when I zoom in. But i'm sure that this happens all the time whenever I zoom in on images in photoshop, even those before I edited them. Maybe i'm incorrect. But your response seems to give the correct answer.

Is there any way to modify this from a standard layer, or will I have to start again?

Thanks,
Jeff

I’m assuming that Photoshop works the same way as PSP, and that after saving as a .psd file,
the previously vectorised text is rasterised on reopening, hence the “jaggies”. Of course, the
image attached of the Xara version will show jaggies at it is posted here as a .jpg file.
Saludos,
Bob.

Yeah spot on Bob.

The image zoomed in at 400% showing the paint shop pro image in it's native file format is the one I am getting.

Jeff

In that case, Jeff, I don't think there's anything for it but to get
yourself a copy of Xara Xtreme. There's a free 15 day trial
available here. It will do most things to photos that Photoshop and
PSP do, except push pixels around with the clone brush/stamp tool.
Text on photos is so easy, and the effects you can create are at least
as good as the above-mentioned programs, the price is good too.
Saludos,
Bob.

Thanks for that Bob.

I'll have a look.

Jeff