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Tell Photoshop When You’re Done With Type
As you probably know, you can jump to most any tool in the Toolbox by pressing a single-key keyboard shortcut. (If you didn’t know that, sell your copy of Photoshop. Kidding. Just turn to Chapter 2 for some essential tips.) Here’s the problem: While creating type with the Type tool (T), if you press one of those one-key shortcuts (let’s say the letter P for the Pen tool), instead of jumping to the Pen tool, Photoshop types the letter “p”. It’ll drive you nuts. Okay, you won’t go nuts, but at the very least you’ll have a lot of typos. The reason is this: You have to tell Photoshop that you’re done editing your type. You do this in one of three ways: (1) Click on the checkmark icon at the far right of the Options Bar, (2) press the Enter key, or (3) switch to another tool manually by clicking on it in the Toolbox. Any of these three tells Photoshop that you’re done and lets you use the single-key shortcuts to switch tools.
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