Modify Text Box Without Scaling Font Size? Edit document size?

Question

In Illustrator, I can easily modify the text box without scaling the font; however, I can't figure out how to do this is Photoshop.

If I attempt to expand the bounds of the text box in photoshop, it enlarges my font; which, is not what I want to do.

On a side note, I really wish some of the features in each application were consistent across applications. Adobe users should be able to switch between Adobe programs with ease; however, this is not the case because each program is SO different.

A simple "document setup" box in Photoshop would also be great. How do you modify the canvas size in Photoshop?

Kindly,

Dana

jane-e · Answer

@RebelRD

Photoshop and Illustrator work the same way on this:

If you click, then type text, you get Point Text. Scaling resizes the typesize. Shift keeps it proportional.
If you drag, then type text, you get Area Type and the text is in a frame. Resizing the frame does not scale the text. It resizes the frame.

Both applications allow you to convert from one to the other. Illustrator has widgets. Photoshop requires going to the Type menu.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-type.html

To modify the canvas size in Photoshop:

Image menu > Canvas size
or
Crop tool > crop larger

The applications are much closer together than they were 30 years ago, but every time one team makes a change for consistency across applications, it angers the long time users of the other. Do you remember when Illustrator switched the Zero point from the bottom left to the top left? Or when Photoshop changed the keyboard shortcuts for channels?

Jane

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