Text Box Formatting

Question

How do I add a background color to a text box in Adobe 11 Photo Editor?

hatstead · Accepted Answer

Someone marked my answer as “correct,” which it obviously wasn’t. I’ve unmarked it to keep this open.

SLG30852, please describe how you created the colored text box in the past? Text in Photoshop doesn’t typically have a background, you have to create a rectangular shape in some way on another layer to provide the look of a text box.

Mike

Try this:

Go to File>new>blank file. This will be your canvas
Activate the Rectangular Marquee tool and drag out a rectangular box
Set your foreground color chip to the desired color
Activate the Paint-bucket tool, and left click inside the box
Press CTRL+D to get rid of the marching ants
Change the foreground color chip to the desired color for the text
Activate the Type tool and type the text, and position it within the confines of the box.

stokesy11 · Answer

I found a simple way to do this:1. Create a new layer below the text layer.2. Use the square marquee tool to draw a box to encompass the type you want a color background for.3. Make sure the color picker is set to Black foreground/White background.4. Hit Control/Command Delete for white background.5. Hit Command Delete for black background (works if type is any color but black).6. For other colors, change color picker to any color combination & use same keyboard shortcuts.

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