Quick forgetful question

[PhotoBoy]

What have I created when I drag the Type tool before entering text. See pic attached.

[PhotoBoy]

How do I get rid of the wierd box? Do I have to delete it all and start text again?

[Dean_Utian · Accepted solution]

Here is a good technote page on text.

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

If you have a bounding box (Paragraph type) like what you have shown, you can convert it to Point type (without the bounding box) by: 

Choose Type > Convert To Point Text

You can switch Point type to Paragraph  by:

or Type > Convert To Paragraph Text.

[PhotoBoy]

Thank you, I appreciate your help. I was confused until I realized I have to deselect the paragraph first, make sure the layer is selected, then Type/Convert to Point Text.

[Dean_Utian]

Glad to help and happy all is working for you now.

[Dean_Utian]

Hi

Are you asking what the text box means? If so, that's the bounding box for text. So, say you want text to be limited to a certain area, you create the box in a particular part of the image by clicking and dragging to create a box, and then when you start typing in text, it will be constrained to that area. If you don't have the bounding box, your text will just continue in a single line.

[PhotoBoy]

Thank you very much

[jane-e]

Hi

See the difference between Point Type and Paragraph Type here:

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

Your screen shot shows a small text frame with a large type size. Resize the frame bigger if you need to type more than the one letter. 

~ Jane

[PhotoBoy]

Thank you.