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Hi
can anyone still help with a Photoshop 4 question?
I’m used to using a much more recent version, but all this 2nd-hand machine has on it (and all it can run probably, v old machine) is 4.
Problem is with the Type tool. I click on it, click somewhere within the work; now in later versions I’m used to being able to type straight onto the work. V4 opens up a dialog instead, with font settings and a text box where you can type things. Fair enough – typing right on the work isn’t something I’m going to cry about not having.
Here’s the problem: whatever I type, whatever font I select, whatever font size I select, whatever foreground and background colours I select, all I get for it is a rectangle in the foreground colour. Presumably the rectangle is the text box, as it’s longer the more text I type. But where’s the text? Why does it seem Photoshop is putting the text and background in the same colour?
I’m at 3% physical memory, but the page-file is only 10% used – so if it’s a memory problem, it would show up as slowness, not outright refusal tto do things, no? Resources are about 50% free (yep, I’m using Windows 98!)
thanks for any help, this is driving me nuts.
Seb
can anyone still help with a Photoshop 4 question?
I’m used to using a much more recent version, but all this 2nd-hand machine has on it (and all it can run probably, v old machine) is 4.
Problem is with the Type tool. I click on it, click somewhere within the work; now in later versions I’m used to being able to type straight onto the work. V4 opens up a dialog instead, with font settings and a text box where you can type things. Fair enough – typing right on the work isn’t something I’m going to cry about not having.
Here’s the problem: whatever I type, whatever font I select, whatever font size I select, whatever foreground and background colours I select, all I get for it is a rectangle in the foreground colour. Presumably the rectangle is the text box, as it’s longer the more text I type. But where’s the text? Why does it seem Photoshop is putting the text and background in the same colour?
I’m at 3% physical memory, but the page-file is only 10% used – so if it’s a memory problem, it would show up as slowness, not outright refusal tto do things, no? Resources are about 50% free (yep, I’m using Windows 98!)
thanks for any help, this is driving me nuts.
Seb
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