April 30th, 2010 at 5:35 am I still have my photoshop 5 (not CS5) and have been learing again on a free 1 month demo. So thanks for nothing to Google and thanks for nothing to my brain. Ken says: Thanks for this, I had exactly the same question. got me nowhere. If you wish to alter the text box numerically then you must use the Direct Selection Tool to select the box (not the type) and then you can enter values for the width and height in the control bar without altering the scale or size of the type. There’s a reason why this is the number entry for Googling: Thanks again – not sure that I would’ve ever figured that out on my own. Bobi says: Thanks heaps for this. If you release control you can reshape the text box. And you would expect Adobe to notice so many people are having such a problem and make that easier in updates. 5. I have been fighting this for YEARS and, like you, was never able to find a good answer. 1. Thank you! THANK YOU for sharing… albeit 6 years ago… but still very relevant today! Saved me hours of hunting as well. I spend hal my day at work just trying to figure out how to perform such basic commands. I couldn’t figure out why sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn’t. August 19th, 2011 at 11:09 am So, in Adobe Photoshop CS4, first draw the text box (click and drag) and then start typing. THANK YOU! Andy says: Thank you very very much for this. October 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm Fireworks is so much easier to use and theres nothing I can do in Photoshop that I cant do in Fireworks. Here's how to change the size of text, images, and apps in Windows 10. This entry is filed under Computer Stuff and written by Peter Keung. And then to top of your geniusness you then someone shares how to create a paragraph box and also how to justify with the boxes that are blacked out. You can specify the size in pixels even for text buttons, but that requires some magic. Trying to tweak every conceivable Photoshop option and using ctrl+click, shift+right-click, scream-at-computer-click, etc. This award recognizes someone who has achieved high tech and professional accomplishments as an expert in a specific topic. View 1 Replies View Related Illustrator :: Unable To Change Size Of Image Or Text Box Sep 1, 2013. December 29th, 2011 at 8:40 am share | improve this answer | follow | edited Aug 13 '15 at 18:18. answered Sep 17 '12 at 23:06. Want to make your font size larger or smaller without going to the Size setting in the Options Bar? Vicki says: You post came up FIRST when I was searching and was just what I needed! October 18th, 2010 at 11:06 am. As you change one value, the other two values change accordingly. Exactly how does one change the size of the text bounding box, without scaling the text or changing the font size? Then change width, height, or resolution. These steps will not work if there is text that has been rasterized already, or if you have a non-layered image (.jpg, .png, .gif, etc.) In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to change the canvas size by using the Canvas Size command. December 18th, 2006 at 6:04 am The background and house style is already locked down but we want to control font, size and textype that goes in to the text boxes. jazz says: May 17th, 2012 at 4:42 am So, if you really do need to resize a Text Placeholder, do it within the Slide Master not only to provide a consistent look to your presentation, but also to prevent yourself from monotonous job of resizing Text Placeholders on each and every slide. Change text … Nr.1 search result! This tutorial will teach you how to create a shape from scratch and insert text that conforms to the edges of that shape. March 17th, 2010 at 3:01 am Jeremy Myers says: Finally! Freb says: I was having trouble getting my cursor to select the squares on the text box used to resize it. March 13th, 2008 at 5:36 am I was thrilled to find your post. I went to the menu and chose Layer>Type>Convert to Paragraph Text. anibal says: thanks man, was looking for a solution and found yours. June 9th, 2009 at 4:36 am Once you’ve typed your text, you can adjust the font, size and color from the Character panel, or via the horizontal toolbar at the top of the Photoshop workspace.. I had to do the same as Nate (third down) and Convert Text to Paragraph Type in the Layer menu. Now, you can edit the text to the point where it fits in your box. Ensure text is set to Paragraph using Layer menu (covered above) If you don't want them to change size at a relative or similar rate or not at all, the element of whether they are tied together or not, is in those boxes. Being involved with EE helped me to grow personally and professionally. So, after an hour I sent the file to Derek (smart guy) and complained. October 26th, 2011 at 10:00 am All I wanted to do was to change text from being left-aligned to being centered, but the text box was obviously the wrong size to be centered. Photoshop CS6 version 13.0.6x64 OS X Yosemetie 10.10.2 Nothing is connected other than an external hard drive. You can control how text appears within the bounding box using the vertical and horizontal alignment properties. Bob McDonald from Akatombo Media was kind enough to share this trick with Photoshop text layers.. March 14th, 2008 at 2:15 pm Please do tell! K says: I’ve been scratching my head over this for years, always giving up and creating a new box, and copying and pasting the text in. Photoshop makes it incredibly easy to change the color of text, whether or not you can edit it. dmajor says: For me what worked was I had to actually DRAW a text box then put the text inside, after that it let me resize it without messing with the text. To scale the text, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, then click and drag any of the four corner handles (the little squares). Saved me hours, if not days of searching. To change the size of all the characters in a layer, select the text layer in the Layers panel. Photoshop is non-user-friendly to the point of being horrible. Only the bottom-right handle seems to have done the trick for me. Glad to have found this answer in 2013. picolo says: I’ve just had this problem – I was facing it all day long!!! like others, this has bugged me forever! 5. But sometimes it doesn’t work and it doesn’t give me the "switch to Paragraph option". jfleaux says: It took me a while to figure out that when you’re using the text tool, you have to hold the mouse over the resize box section that you want to drag before it changes from the text cursor to the resize cursor. Changing the Canvas Size in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Your post saved me at least half an hour (wasted already 30 mins. A window will appear with options to set text box width and height, there are other useful options too. March 10th, 2010 at 8:22 am When I manually stretch out the text box, it works fine. February 8th, 2010 at 8:11 pm September 5th, 2012 at 2:46 pm also the comment about the change type of layer to paragraph was much helpful THANK YOU and a little bow. November 8th, 2008 at 7:37 pm bronius says: OK! Click the Text tool from the toolbar at the left side of the window. In the Monitor panel, select the text and do one of the following: ... To center the text in the box, click Center Text. I went back to Photoshop and… ah… for some reason a light finally turned on: I should have simply resized while using the Text Tool; all along, I was trying to use the arrow to resize the text box. When you are creating a block of paragraph text, you can specify a width and height by simply selecting the Type tool and pressing Alt (Mac: Option) and clicking anywhere on your canvas. December 17th, 2014 at 2:50 pm This info is not on Photoshop’s Help site, so I’m grateful you put it here. Here’s to the stubborn ones that refuse to fallback to pointless workarounds, the ones who take bad design personally, and who document their small triumphs for the benefit of others. I am editing a brochure in Illustrator CS4. Click the Text tool icon in the toolbar If you don’t like the selection of fonts available to you in Photoshop CS5, you can read here to learn how to add more fonts to Photoshop. I thank you! June 10th, 2012 at 9:42 am It is like having another employee that is extremely experienced. the stress pain in my shoulder is getting better as I type. I can’t believe my good fortune that I did a google search for "expand text box photoshop " and this page was the first thing that came up! I just wanted the type to wrap in the box as the box size was changed, and make the box size fit the text and not the other way around. December 6th, 2010 at 2:15 pm But when I resized the text box, the text itself was changed as well! Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful image editing application. If you make the canvas smaller, Photoshop crops (cuts away) the image. The type tool in Photoshop is more flexible than you might think. August 21st, 2006 at 3:13 am Right click on the element again and select Filters 6. julian says: Really a great help. Thanks so much for the easy tool! For more precise control, use the desktop version of Word Size options on the Picture Tools Format tab or the Drawing Tools Format tab. I have been so frustrated overall with text in photoshop. I guess I'm not explaining this very well. THANK YOU! if anyone else is having trouble with that, it is because you just have to rest the cursor on the square for a second and it will then turn into the arrows that let you adjust its size. February 23rd, 2011 at 12:50 pm November 24th, 2010 at 9:32 am However, the option was intially greyed out. 0 How to Change the Size of Text. I LOVE YOU MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He replied: “I don’t have the problem — I can resize the text box and the font size isn’t changed.”. Thanks to you, I found my answer. I’m in CS4 for Windows. The answer i was looking for. What!?!? I learned this while making www.CaptainChristopherNewport.com It has changed my life forever. I have the text tool selected. Nathan says: Thank you very much! Dave says: I still had problems, so here’s a step-by-step: 1. Thank you!! Richard says: Genius – many thanks indeed – saved me from going bald tearing my hair out! You saved me all the digging! Hope this helps. SteveC says: You da man, thanks for that, I too was getting increasingly frustated with what should be a simple task (which it is when you know how to do it!!!!). Change font style C. Change font size D. Change pixelation of text edge (anti-aliasing) E. Change text alignment F. Change text color G. Warp text H. View Character and Paragraph panel I. How poor can the UI of Photoshop be if we are all stuck with something that simple. Laura says: Thank you for this post Peter! Click on them and choose a new value. From the book From the book. If I created a text layer by selecting the text tool, and then just clicking and starting typing, I could not resize the resulting text box without changing the font size. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. while it didn’t save me the hour, just to know i’m not alone in my computer skills and thought processses is priceless! I already tried to group objects together, and unclick the "align to slide" button, that still messes up their shapes when I change the slide orientation (e.g. Entries (RSS) Right Click the element on the stage and select Transform > Edit Transform 4. Kathryn says: Thank you! You can change the size, style, and color of your font from the top menu. It worked in CS5 (which is out today). This box allows you to resize the object, but that is not all: Click on any point to change the size of the text from the point. When changing font size for example; random amounts of spacing is added between characters. Kris says: thank you so much for posting this. RobH2 says: Excellent ‘Useful Crap’ for sure. Comment on any of my posts to contact me. Obviously you can push delete layer, but that is too slow for me. Do any of the following: To change the image size or resolution and allow the total number of pixels to adjust proportionately, make sure that Resample is selected, and if necessary, choose an interpolation method from the Resample menu. This thread is locked. February 23rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm Meaghan Schmaltz says: O.M.G. if you don't want both to move together with regard to size, you go to those little boxes and either click off, so you can manipulate the image in the box seperate from canvas, or opposite. December 7th, 2011 at 2:17 pm Text anti-aliasing can be found in Photoshop’s Control Bar (usually located at the top of the screen) when you have the text tool selected. Christina says: Years later again….. thanks! Photoshop CS5 for Windows and … If you hold down the control key (windows, you'd have to know what it is on apple) while in the text tool you can move the box. You could open the Image Size dialog box to find out the width and height of the image and then do the math, ... Photoshop's Transform Selection command allows us to make changes to the selection outline itself without affecting anything inside of the selection. Just a silly point, but when I say click and drag, the action is click and keep holding the mouse button down and drag. If the only thing you’re having trouble with is the text size when navigating through Windows, then making text bigger—or smaller—is all you need to do. A. And thanks to Nate for his comment (third comment down) It allows me to click on the image or text box but does not allow me to change the size of it with the mouse. Thanks poster. I thought about just doing it that way, but that was kind of giving up. I am looking for something to improve workflow. This depends on the tool used to insert the text, the Artistic Text Tool will always resize your text to the frame size, however with the Frame Text Tool you can reflow the text if you use the frame bounding box handles or scale it if you use the detached handle on the bottom right of the text frame. If you just select the type tool, click on your image and start typing, it treats that text as "Single line text", and we have the problem. Once Converted to a Paragraph, i could Control+mouse to move my bounding box. Next, find your Rectangle Tool. May 21st, 2009 at 10:37 pm Kayley says: Oh my goodness, I have been searching for this process for such a long time. Barbara says: This page is the first result in Google search for this problem, and if anyone’s still following this thread, could you clue me in on the secret for how this works? (Found this page by googling ‘photoshop resize text box without resizing text’.). April 9th, 2014 at 12:49 pm Use your keyboard to change the text as needed. If you paste 50 lines of content into a text frame that’s 20 lines tall, the last 30 lines still exist beyond […] May 19th, 2009 at 8:26 am If you display bitmaps or images instead, they define the size in pixels (or other screen units). At least til the next time. It depends the way you have created the text to begin with. I had to re-create the text box, by clicking and dragging the text tool to create the right-sized rectangle. Converting the text to Paragraph saved my afternoon, (Landed here via Google ‘resize a text box in photoshop cs3′). May 19th, 2011 at 7:07 pm May 8th, 2009 at 6:07 am amanda says: thanks! May 27th, 2010 at 8:02 am Edit Text Font in Photoshop . To turn AutoFit off for the active text box and allow text to move beyond the placeholder border, click “Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder.” Now, if you type text outside the boundary of the text placeholder, the additional text will be added and the text size will not change. December 30th, 2011 at 5:58 pm Like If you would like to change the size of a Text layer, you can adjust the bounding box. I am giving out free Writely invites (that Google word processing site). I can't believe after I've created a text box with text in it, I can't change the size or shape of the text bounding box without changing the font size with it. Mariano says: Thanks, man. The original post wasn’t the fix I needed, but Nate’s suggestion to “convert text to paragraph type” saved the day. Click anywhere inside your text, then press Ctrl + A to select all of the text. and Comments (RSS). August 6th, 2011 at 7:56 pm But if you select the type tool, then draw a rectangle to create a text box for the type, then start typing, it then treats it as paragraph text, which can be resized later without affecting the text. Double-click the Type layer thumbnail to select your type. Click Apply, Sign Out, Sign back in. I too screamed at the computer since last night… now I feel like a child with a pacifier… use the Text tool to resize the text box… novel concept! See here. RE: Changing text size with keyboard changes my highlighted text instead of field with text-size As a bonus we’ve included a section about resizing without losing image quality. Love. thanks! Resize the frame to display more text if needed, and move (reposition) frames to create a pleasing layout. But if any other icon is selected, the delete button does not remove the layer. Figure 5: Width of the text box changed to match the picture's width This will resize the text box, as shown in Figure 6 (compare to Figure 1). But then it didn’t work (Photoshop CS3). And I have been constantly deleting layers and starting again to retype the text over and over because it kept going all stretchy when i adjusted the size of the box. Click, then drag to make the bounding box (thus creating paragraph text) 9 months ago 27 March 2020. July 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm I just wanted the type to wrap in the box as the box size was changed, and make the box size fit the text and not the other way around. I thought i would finally go grazy of that!! Bernardo says: July 17th, 2010 at 6:29 am Adding inline styles in your HTML will add to many lines at the end... plus you would need to add it to the other types of form fields such as . In this case, select the Type tool in the toolbar, click the text you want to select, and choose Select > All in the menu bar. July 9th, 2009 at 5:59 am June 5th, 2012 at 5:55 pm You. Here goes: I'm a webdesigner and deal a lot with text boxes and resizing them to columns, or aligning them to guides. Press the F7 key on your keyboard to display the Layers panel (if it is not already being displayed), then click the text layer that you want to edit. March 23rd, 2010 at 3:39 pm I had the same problem deleting layers. I went through this ordeal for three days when I finally saw this. Is this a joke!?!? Dae says: I’m that ‘someone somewhere’, thank you very much. sonfle says: I just had the same problem and google sent me here, thanx! Thank goodness you posted this in plain English, and also thanks for the “must be highlighted” tip! Because you can change the size of the text box, you have great flexibility using paragraph text. Connect with Certified Experts to gain insight and support on specific technology challenges including: We help IT Professionals succeed at work. Paragraph text is also easier to center on your page. 1. It there a key that I can hold down to keep text from changing size and only change the text frame? HTML: April 12th, 2009 at 5:56 am To set the text area box to specific dimensions without distorting the text do this: In the main menu (on top), choose Type and then Area Type Options. October 31st, 2010 at 5:40 pm Niki says: thank mother nature for your post. Niek says: Google.nl search string: photoshop change size text box For more information about when you’d use point text vs paragraph text, this handy dandy website should do the trick: http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/photoshop-basics/type-basics-point-type-and-area-type.5727.html. Perhaps I can show by example what JF0 was saying to do, and what Philip was expanding on. March 30th, 2007 at 11:20 am Save changes HUGE thanks! June 26th, 2013 at 4:05 pm I can't believe after I've created a text box with text in it, I can't change the size or shape of the text bounding box without changing the font size with it. I had just this problem and found by googling "photoshop text tool size of text box" . anyways, I had this problem before and I figures it out via google, so back I go to google…. I hope I'm not the only one dealing with this inconvenience. It’s not working for me. Elizabeth says: Thanks very much! stoo says: nice one, thanks… i too spent ages trying to find a key combo. Every text layer will have a blue bounding box around it. We've partnered with two important charities to provide clean water and computer science education to those who need it most. Exactly what I was looking for. Once you are done typing, select the text (Ctrl+A, or press the mouse at the beginning of the text, move to the end and release the mouse). Then you should be able to select the text tool, click on the artboard and past the text without boxes. April 21st, 2011 at 9:07 pm Life is worth living again. To change your display in Windows 10, select Start > Settings > Ease of Access > Display.To make only the text on your screen larger, adjust the slider under Make text bigger.To make everything larger, including images and apps, choose an option from the drop-down menu under Make everything bigger. Yeah, I could have just created a new text box, but that would have meant giving in. We also wish to control the text box position and size. There is a workaround, however, if you’d like to continue working with your image in Photoshop: First, create your text box by selecting the “T” tool from your Photoshop Toolbox. 4. The text gets all stretched and distorted. January 27th, 2010 at 11:38 am Appreciate you taking the time to write this. Add a text box with the text you want to show. The arrow USED to solve the issue. June 10th, 2012 at 6:27 pm Fire up the Settings app by pressing Win+I and then click the “Ease of Access” category. Such a SUPER HELPFUL answer! blah says: thanks for posting this, im just starting to learn photoshop and i always get hung up on stupid stuff like this. But I can't get it exact doing it that way. You can change the unit of measurement for width and height by choosing from the menus to the right of the Width and Height text boxes. Choose the Horizontal Type Tool in the toolbox. April 28th, 2009 at 5:16 am You could also try different fonts and paragraph spacing to see if you can make your text fit rather than just letting PowerPoint resize the font. Click on one of the letters or numbers in the text layer. jean says: Awesome! But it was Nate’s answer that helped me this time. October 20th, 2011 at 7:18 am I found ur blog via google with “adjust paragraph but not text size in photoshop”. Brian Musgrove says: Thank you for your generous help, Peter. I wonder how much lifetime I’ve wasted reformatting the text manually by using line breaks xD! If it says Layer > Type > "Convert to Point Text" then it has already been done and you are ready to resize the text box. The Canvas Size dialog box appears. Experts Exchange always has the answer, or at the least points me in the correct direction! There are text blocks. I can't believe after I've created a text box with text in it, I can't change the size or shape of the text bounding box without changing the font size with it. trying to find it out myself). jane says: 1. Right Click the element on the stage and select Transform > Edit Transform 4. October 11th, 2014 at 7:21 pm February 4th, 2010 at 9:36 pm I am not new to photoshop, I even took college courses in it a millon (okay more like 15 years ago) and have not used it much since. Click on "set a custom scaling level" and change it to say 125%. Change horizontal text to vertical text and vice-versa B. February 15th, 2010 at 6:42 pm EXTREMELY helpful – thanks for taking the time to write this up. Choosing the font button to resize the box instead of the move tool is the key! A dialog box will appear where you can enter the dimensions of the text box. Note for anyone using CS6 (yep – they’ve still not fixed the issue)…. This trick would not work for me using Abode CS4 unless I drew the text box. this helped me save my sanity. Start typing in the box.. February 28th, 2012 at 1:05 pm The main parameters are the Font, Size and the Color of the text. I guess they just assume everyone should know this. Whoever put this "design feature" in at Adobe needs to be canned!! Aimee says: oh the hours and swear-words I have wasted trying to do this by hand. March 4th, 2009 at 4:15 pm PS CC using the text tool, i type the words i want but if i try to change the font type or size the text disappears and i have to re type it...anyone else notice this it started doing it … But your site made me laugh — so i felt immensely better plus i discovered I was not the only one who swears at their computer. That was the problem. I used to know a shortcut (I THINK in PS, but perhaps it was InDesign) that made the text box correctly size itself to the text… which is what I was looking for… but this worked, too! I have to spend like hours trying to find how to do little things in ps – thank a god i found this with google and "photoshop textbox". Mark says: @Barbara – I was having the same problem in Elements 8, and none of the above worked for me, but I’ve finally got it. Sander says: Great! 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