Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
or adjustment layer, there won't be anything to copy and you will receive an error
message. If the active layer is not the layer that you intended to copy, you will get
something other than what you intended.
2) In this example, the background layer is white and so our copied layer was white in
the area selected for the new layer. Because it was a solid color, the paint bucket
will fill it with a single mouse click. If it was not a solid color, we would have to
place a marquee box around it and paint the area using the
Paint Brush Tool
. The
Paint Bucket Tool
will paint over whatever color it clicks on, but the
Paint Brush
Tool
will paint over everything.
Now that we have black backdrops at the top and bottom of the page, we are ready to add
text layers to our project.
When we use the text tool, we automatically create a new layer for each text item.
Text is never a part of another layer unless it has been rasterized — converted to a pixel
image — in which case, it is treated as image data and is no longer editable.
Text is vector-based and it will therefore retain its sharpness when enlarged. Images, on
the other hand, are pixel (raster)-based and will become fuzzy when enlarged beyond a cer-
tain point.
