In this video, we're gonna look at type or text. First thing we need to do is grab the type tool  and then we're gonna look out for a couple of things. There's some shapes that the cursor can change into  that you want to be aware of. Now, by default, it's this square here and that is great. Okay. But watch what happens to the cursor that changes.

When I get in front of this box,  'cause I have the hero graphic selected here, it changes  to the circle around it. There's this other one, which is the dotted line. Now this is really what I'm looking for. I want to dump a bit of text on a layer by itself  that I can move around and kind of work on. If I click on this layer,  what it's gonna do is it's gonna turn my rectangle,  my hero graphic into a shape box for it to fit inside. Watch this.

If I click inside and it's gonna keep typing  and it's gonna use the edges of this box, okay? Which can be a little confusing when you're new. So to get outta that, I'm gonna escape, okay? That'll get rid of my text. So  what I wanna do is either have something else selected,  like the nav bar, okay, then it's got nothing selected,  or just type the type lower  and move it in when you're finished. So what I'm gonna do is just have the,  the overall art board selected,  and that'll let me type anywhere using the square cursor.

And I'm gonna show you two ways of applying text. One is an expandable text box and one is a fixed width. So expandable means that I can type something  and you'll see that it keeps on going forever. Okay? It'll just keep stretching off to the right there. Now another way of doing it,  I'm gonna hit escape on my keyboard, gets rid of that text,  um, is to click hold and drag a bit of text.

Okay? What that means is that it's fix width. It means that when I get to the edge, it will break  onto two lines or as many lines that will fit. Okay? So those are the two boxes we're gonna use when  we're working with Photoshop. So the first one we're gonna do  is I'm gonna hit Escape again.

I'm gonna click once and I'm gonna type in our logo. So it's gonna be capital BYOL. And I'm gonna move it using my Move tool kind  of into the nav bar here. If you're finding it's hidden  or you can't see it, it's probably  because it's on a lower layer. To move the layers, you click hold  and drag it above to where you need it to be. To change the font.

It's nice and easy. Make sure you're on the type tool. Make sure you're on your type layer  and play around with the fonts in here. Now, if yours is not set to pixels  and set to points, you might need to go  and change that in your preferences,  which is in an earlier video. Okay? So there's two ways of doing it.

You can use the dropdown, okay? And pick some of these sizes. Now, I find quite useful is actually dragging this one here. Can you see if I hover above this icon here? Click it, drag it, right or left. You can see the font changes depending on  where you're dragging, right?

To go higher, left to go lower, right? And let's say I'm gonna pick 40 for the moment. You can type it in. So let's pay. I pick 40 pixels in the moment  and I'm gonna use the move tool and move it in here. To change the color of the text,  I'm gonna make sure I'm on my type tool.

I'll make sure I'm on my layer. I've got selected Dec K is my type layer. And up here is where the font color is. Now click this and I'm gonna click hold  and drag this around to pick the color I want. I want white, so I'm gonna drag it  all the way into the top left corner. Can you see I drag it past where it needs to go  so it gets all jammed up in the corner.

They're definitely set to white. F, F, F, okay? And click. Okay. If you wanna use one of your special swatches,  what you do is you click on this,  and over here you can see the eyedrop up here. Okay?

And he will pick the color  that you need from the swatches. I'm gonna go back and pick white and click okay.