Adobe Stock Text Editing

[Antonio23707767v06o]

I am only slightly familiar at the moment with PS but just upgraded to the all apps plan. I have been googling and trying to watch youtube tutorials but what they're showing is not working for me.

Why can I not simply select the text, then use the type tool to edit templates? Also, do I need the font & gradients within the template to have them remain the same but say what I type out? This given that I make it that far. I am trying to get a simple starting flyer done before tomorrow for a friend that just got me a side hussle job as an opening DJ which use to my profession.

Thanks for any/all help in advance. 

Sincerely, a Newb

[Monika Gause]

Text is usually outlined in vector clip art. So you can only delete it and enter your own.

Please check out my youtube playlist about editing vector clipart: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVqhHu3CSohVhofyDlCIh3Z-Qk8qSmMqZ

[Antonio23707767v06o]

Thank you very much for your help, I have checked & there is no lock or clipping mask. Although the text are in groups.

So there is no way to change the text but keep the font/gradient? Sorry, I am just failing to see the purpose of a template if it is not editable?

If that is the case, I would have to make the flyer from the ground up, but I am crunched for time at the moment which is why I decided to use the template originally. That & I am as of now lacking the knowledge to make a nicer more professional one, again in the timeframe that I am alloted.

Again, I very much appreciate your assistance! The tutorial is excellent, it is just not answering the questions I have for this specific project.

I do not mind deleting & redoing all the other texts if I must, but it is allowing me to select & move the current text but when I go to use the type tool it just opens up a new text to the right. Is there something I have to do with that to replace the existing text?

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

All you need to do is find the font that has been used.

Delete the uneditable text.

Then put your own text into it.

To apply a gradient to text, you have to select it with the selection tool, apply a fill in the appearance panel and then apply a gradient to that.

You can do that.

[Antonio23707767v06o]

Yes I can, thank you. One last question, how would I go about finding the font?

[Monika Gause]

To find the font, before deleting the gradient shapes, move them to the side on a blank space on the workspce. Then apply black color to them. Move them apart and then take two screenshots that each have a word in them.

Then you go to

https://fonts.adobe.com/ (there is a button to identify fonts be an image)

and if it cannot find a similar one, try

www.whatthefont.com

www.whatfontis.com

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator

Maybe someone on this forum knows those fonts and can help as well.