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Welcome to this lesson on Text and Text Editing in Paint Shop Pro Photo. I have a blank document open. We're going to add some text. On the Tool Palette, Text is the tool located almost at the bottom and it's got an A in what looks like a keyboard key. Click that to go into Text Entry Mode. At the top of the screen you'll see all of the options that you can select and change, which will alter the way text looks and how it's presented on your screen. The most important thing is really the font; font and font size and here's where you choose from all of the fonts that you have on your system. You can choose a font like a word processor and select one that looks interesting to you and then just choose it and go. So let's go for Ariel Black. Now, the size is displayed in points or if you choose, pixels. Points is more oriented towards printing this out. Pixels is sized on screen. Depending on the size of your image, you know, the document and your monitor resolution, you may need to go large or small depending and just select that here in the size. You can also choose a style just like word processing; bold, italics, underline, strikethrough. I can align it differently. I can change my text flow from normal or horizontal and down, which would be for English or another traditional western or left to right text culture. And you can choose vertical left, vertical right, a lot of different, cool options here. Anti Aliasing options, which defines how smoothly the text looks. You can turn that from sharp, off or smooth. Changing your stroke width, just like you would in creating a vector shape. Create as a Vector or Selection or Floating. I'll almost always leave that on Vector. Then you've got Line Style, much like vector objects. Line Style, Vertex, Joining, Mitre Limits, Warp Text on the Path Option and then you've got your text, traditional text options: Letting, Auto Kerning, Kerning and Tracking. Once you've gone through those and it's basically selected the ones you want, come down and look at the Materials Palette and you can see Foreground and Stroke Properties. That's going to determine the stroke around the letters and then the Fill Properties determines the color of the actual letter itself. So in this case I would create a white letter with a black outline. I don't want to do that so I will right click to put a blue into my background or fill property and leave the stroke at black. I'm going to click in my document, Text Entry Box comes up and so I can start typing. Now, once you type that, to finish and basically be done with that, press Apply. You can also check Remember Text. This text will appear the next time you enter Text Entry Mode or if you made a mistake, you can move your cursor within there anytime anywhere you want to, type just like a Word document. To make changes to part or all of the text, select what you want to change and now you can also make different changes on the fly, such as materials and even other properties like letting and kerning and so forth. To start a new line, just press Return or Enter and there you've got a reply. Now select that again. I'm going to right click to put in a fill property. I'm going to turn off the outline so you can see you can do that as well. Now just Apply and there is the text. Just like any other vector object, I can drag that around the screen, more easily with the Pick Tool and also deform it, enlarge it, reduce it, rotate it, just like vector objects. If I expand the layer, I can see my text object here on its separate layer. It is within a vector layer, which is really more like a vector layer group because if I want to, I can create a vector shape here, which is located in the same group but it's separate from the text. So I can expand that out to see it and just drag it off the text and it'll be just fine. To edit this text once it's been entered, you can do it a couple different ways. First, click your Text Tool and hover that over the text until you see those brackets around the A, click and there you go. You're in. Sometimes that's pretty difficult so what you can also do is double click the text here in the Layers Palette and achieve the same effect. That is a quick overview of entering text in Paint Shop Pro Photo.