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Photoshop CC 2019 Text Box Resizing Bug

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March 18, 2019
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I used to be able to adjust a text box in two ways:

1) Adjusting the text box size while also resizing the text inside the box

and

2) Adjusting the text box without affecting the text inside.

But here lately, I'm only able to do #1. No matter how I select the text box, the results are the same - it resizes the text inside. Am I the only one having this problem and do you have any suggestions for fixing it? I tried resetting the text tool and restarting the program, but that didn't help.

I made a (bit too elaborate) demo video to demonstrate what I'm talking about, so you can see that I understand the two different ways to select a text box, but neither way gives me the option of adjusting only the text box size.

This issue has occurred only recently, so I assume it's related to a recent update. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Heather

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Correct answer jane-e

Hi Heather,

I had to watch your video twice because of the “Tim Apple” quote and your most appropriate grammar!

Assuming you used area type, not point type, and have a text frame, try using your Type tool. With your Type tool you will resize only the frame.

And the butterflies flying in were a nice touch. With your creativity in posting your question, you really should check out the weekly Photoshop challenge by davescm. This week it’s here: Something for the weekend - Part 63 - Spring.

~ Jane

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Hi Heather,

I had to watch your video twice because of the “Tim Apple” quote and your most appropriate grammar!

Assuming you used area type, not point type, and have a text frame, try using your Type tool. With your Type tool you will resize only the frame.

And the butterflies flying in were a nice touch. With your creativity in posting your question, you really should check out the weekly Photoshop challenge by davescm. This week it’s here: Something for the weekend - Part 63 - Spring.

~ Jane

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Thanks Jane! Using the text tool does what I wanted, as long as I draw the text box onto the board as opposed to just clicking to create text. Now I just have to remember that's how it's done. I don't know how I never had this problem until now. I must have been drawing the text boxes every time.

I appreciate the sweet comments about my video. I just wanted to add music to my boring screen recording and it turned out that the default Windows 10 Photo app has all these neat 3D effects you can easily pop into your video. I obviously couldn't resist putting one in, lol. It's not every day I get to make a video that I'm just going to throw away, so it was the perfect opportunity to play around. I can't recommend the app for making videos though. It's too basic.

I don't want to over-explain the text in my video, since I assume most people got the reference, but here's a movie clip for anyone who doesn't remember or didn't see Forrest Gump. "Bubba was my best, good friend..." (Forrest Gump is intellectually disabled, soooo.... Trump. Also, Trump and Gump rhyme! I just realized that.)

Thanks so much for helping me out with this. I was wasting so much time fooling around with it. I'll check out the weekly challenge and probably throw some butterflies onto it. It's the perfect pic for that. Thanks for inviting me! (Looks like there are people who get upset if you don't do everything from scratch, using your own images, even though dem aren't the rules. Hmm.)

Heather

jane-e

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Heather,

Your video was a breath of fresh air! And I burst out laughing with the Gump/Trump rhyme. I have to tag Trevor.Dennis here so he can see what you wrote.

Not everyone makes everything from scratch. I don’t! And davescm clearly says that beginners are welcome, so please join us!

Click and type gives you Point Text.
Drag and type gives you Paragraph Text with a frame.

You can convert from one to the other. After you commit the text, go to Type > Convert to > [Paragraph/Point] text. The Type tool is used to resize the frame.

You can only edit when no one else has added to the post, so I changed the title for you. Let me know if it’s okay.

Cheers,

Jane

JJMack

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How Did You add the text? Here I added two text layers. Thy look the same but they are not. Double clicking ob the first one put me into text edit mode one the text layer I added. Double clicking on the second one puts me into text edit mode on the text paragraph layer I added.

Layer Transform see the difference also

But I onle have Photoshop 2019 version 20.0.4 I do not have Adobe next version of Photoshop? How did you get that?

JJMack

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Starlight LadyAuthor

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Hey JJMack. Turns out I needed to draw my text box out, so I assume that's what you were showing me in your reply - one box that you drew out and the other that you just clicked to create text. Apparently, just clicking to create text doesn't give the option to edit the box dimensions at a later point.

That's my bad on the 2020 thing. My brain doesn't always work right (literally, not joking). I was confusing Photoshop CC 2019 Version 20.0.4 with PS CC 2020, which doesn't exist. I'll see if I can edit my subject line. Thanks for pointing that out.

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iyutkipz

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I faced the same problem as you. Thank you a lot for sharing

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