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

[RebelRD]

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

[Semaphoric]

Are you using the Move tool for this? If so, try using the Text tool. Click on some text with it, and it will show the text box, which you can then resize without scaling, although it can cause your text to reflow.

[jane-e]

@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

[RebelRD]

Thank you, Jane. I am a long-term Illustrator user. It is indeed the best app on the planet. I'm not sure I recall the reference you make, but I do hope they never remove "save for web, legacy." 😉

[jane-e]

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@RebelRD wrote:

I'm not sure I recall the reference you make,

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Hi

You're welcome, Dana, and I also love Illustrator! 

I made two references and I'm not sure which you don't recall.

Here is a chart for plotting the x/y axis with positive and negative numbers. Illustrator used to use the top right quadrant, measuring the "1" on the Y axis from the bottom. All other applications use the lower right quadrant (omitting the minus). When Illustrator switched for consistency, users went ballistic!

The second was for the shortcuts for channels in Photoshop. You can still use the legacy shortcuts (from CS3 and earlier) by going to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > enable “Use Legacy Channel Shortcuts”. Cmd+1 had been the shortcut for the first channel and was changed for consistency to a View shortcut.

~ Jane

[johnandrus]

The OP asked how to resize a text box, and you told her how to resize the canvas.  These are two totally different things.

[jane-e]

The OP asked how to resize a text box, and you told her how to resize the canvas. 

By @johnandrus

See this, posted on 20 March 2022 and note that the OP said "thank you because it answered her question. 🙂

Jane

[johnandrus]

I'll grant you that you answered her extra question she put at the very end of her main question, but her main question remained unanswered regardless of what she said.  And sadly, that's my current question.  Nobody is answering it anywhere for Photoshop 26.1.0.

[jane-e]

@johnandrus 

Also, she did ask "How do you modify the canvas size in Photoshop?" in her first post. Please clarify your complaint about the response to her questions.

If the answer to her does not help you, it's best to start a new post so we can better assist instead of jumping in on an old thread.

Jane

[johnandrus]

This is just for future people who also see the original question wasn't answered.  Here is the answer:

By default, Photoshop will set the leading to (Auto): when the text box is resized, the font is also resized using the same ratios in font size and leading.

The way to keep the font size fixed to a certain point size, while allowing the text box to be resized (so that the text flow is changed, as desired, to fit in the new dimensions), is to set the leading to a fixed value. This turns off Photoshop's automatic font resizing as well.

The correct fixed value for the leading is, obviously, dependent on the font type and size.

From the Character panel, the setting for the leading is to the right of the font size itself:

While this is counter-intuitive, it works!

It's quite likely that either the defaults for Photoshop changed at some point (i.e., (Auto) became the 'new' default), or you might accidentally reset this to (Auto) without intention — this is one of those settings that persist across sessions...


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