Text in Elements - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 743

▪ Cancel . When you add text to an image, Elements automatically places the text on its
own layer. Click this button (the red circle with a slash) to delete this newly created Text
layer. This button works only if you click it before you click the green Commit check-
mark. To delete text after you've committed it, head to the Layers panel and drag the
Text layer onto the trashcan icon.
If you see either of these buttons in your image, that means you haven't committed your text,
and many menu options and other tools won't be available until you do. When you see these
buttons, you're in what Elements calls Edit mode , where you can make changes to the text,
but most of the rest of Elements' features aren't available to you. Just click Commit or
Cancel to get the rest of the program's options back.
Creating Text
Now that you're familiar with the choices in the Tool Options area, you're ready to start cre-
ating text. You can add text to an existing image or start with a new, blank file (if you want to
create text to use as a graphic by itself, say). To use either the Horizontal or Vertical Type
tool, just follow these steps:
1. Activate a type tool .
Click the T icon in the Tools panel or press the T key on your keyboard and then, in
the Tool Options area, select the Horizontal Type tool or the Vertical Type tool.
2. Modify any Tool Options settings you want to change .
See the previous section for a rundown of your choices. You can make changes after
you enter the text, too, so your choices aren't set in stone yet. Elements lets you edit
text until you simplify the Text layer. ( The Custom Shape Tool explains what simpli-
fying is.)