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2 May 2023
- Photoshop User Guide
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
- Photoshop on the iPad (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
- Get to know the workspace
- System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
- Create, open, and export documents
- Add photos
- Work with layers
- Draw and paint with brushes
- Make selections and add masks
- Retouch your composites
- Work with adjustment layers
- Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
- Apply transform operations
- Crop and rotate your composites
- Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
- Work with Type layers
- Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
- Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
- Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
- Manage app settings
- Touch shortcuts and gestures
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Edit your image size
- Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
- Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
- Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop on the iPad
- Work with Camera Raw files
- Create and work with Smart Objects
- Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
- Auto adjustment commands in Photoshop on the iPad
- Smudge areas in your images with Photoshop on the iPad
- Saturate or desaturate your images using Sponge tool
- Content aware fill for iPad
- Photoshop on the web (not available in mainland China)
- Common questions
- System requirements
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- Supported file types
- Introduction to the workspace
- Open and work with cloud documents
- Generative AI features
- Basic concepts of editing
- Quick Actions
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- Make quick selections
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- Work with Type layers
- Work with anyone on the web
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- Generate Image
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- Photoshop (beta) (not available in mainland China)
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- Common questions on generative AI in Photoshop
- Generative Fill in Photoshop on the desktop
- Generate Image with descriptive text prompts
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- Replace background with Generate background
- Get new variations with Generate Similar
- Generative Fill in Photoshop on the iPad
- Generative Expand in Photoshop on the iPad
- Generative AI features in Photoshop on the web
- Content authenticity (not available in mainland China)
- Cloud documents (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
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- Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
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Find quick steps on how to use the Type tool in Photoshop on the iPad.
Adding and editing text is another important way to enhance your composites in Photoshop on your iPad. You can create a type layer, edit the text and attributes, and apply layer commands.
Access the Type tool
To access the Type tool, do any of the following:
- From the toolbar, tap the Type tool (
) icon to select it. - Simply press ‘T’ if you have a physical keyboard connected to your iPad to select the Type tool.
Note:
Setting vertical text in Photoshop on the iPad is not available. However, vertical text frames are visible and supported if the document was first created in Photoshop on the desktop.
Introduced in Photoshop on the iPad 4.4 (February 2023 release)
Cut, copy, and paste text between Photoshop on the iPad and apps such as Notes. Tap your selected text on the canvas to view the pop-up menu and choose from the listed actions.
For text selections, refer to this table to know more about the actions available with our improved pop-up menus.
| Tap once | View the limited option pop-up menu |
Select All and Paste |
| Tap twice | Select a line of text and view the pop-up menu | Cut, Copy, Select All, and Paste |
| Tap thrice | Select the whole line and view the pop-up menu | Cut, Copy, Select All, and Paste |
| Tap four times | Select a block of text and view the pop-up menu | Cut, Copy, Select All, and Paste |
You can also copy and paste images between Photoshop on the iPad and other apps like Notes.
To paste images in Photoshop on the iPad, you can either select Paste from the Layer actions menu or tap the + icon and choose Paste as new layer.
To copy images from Photoshop on the iPad and paste into other apps, follow these steps:
- Use the Lasso tool to select an image or its portion.
- Open the Layer actions menu and choose from Cut, Copy selection, or Copy merged.
- While on an image layer, open the Layer actions menu and choose from Cut, Copy selection, or Copy merged.
Create a Type layer
Point text
Use point text to add a few words like a heading or title to your document in Photoshop on the iPad.
To add point text, do the following:
- Simply select Type () from the toolbar and tap anywhere in your canvas to enter the Type mode.
- Some sample text appears surrounded by a bounding box by default, as the type layer gets created. Tap anywhere inside the bounding box and start typing your desired text.
- Use (
) icon visible over the text bounding box to move your type layer around your canvas. - In the Layer Properties panel that opens by default in the Type mode, you can modify — Text, Paragraph, Blending options, and Add clipped adjustment.
- Use the cut (
), copy (
), and paste (
) icons visible on the virtual keyboard that appears by default in the Type mode, and apply corresponding actions. - Tap Done from the top of the Type mode to save your edits to the type layer. Tap Cancel to exit the Type mode.
Paragraph text
Use paragraph text to add a paragraph of text to your document. Click and drag the cursor on the canvas to create a bounding box in which you can type your paragraph. This helps you efficiently edit and align the paragraph later.
To add paragraph text, do the following:
- Simply select Type () from the toolbar
- Tap and drag the pointer on the canvas to create a bounding box in which you can type your text paragraph. As you create a paragraph you enter the Type mode automatically.
- You can see sample text inside the bounding box. Tap anywhere inside the bounding box and start typing your desired text.
- Use () icon visible over the text bounding box to move your type layer around your canvas.
- In the Layer Properties panel that opens by default in the Type mode, you can modify — Text, Paragraph, Blending options, and Add clipped adjustment.
- Use the cut (), copy (), and paste () icons visible on the virtual keyboard that appears by default in the Type mode, and apply corresponding actions.
- Tap Done from the top of the Type mode to save your edits to the type layer. Tap Cancel to exit the Type mode.
Edit text using the Type tool
In the Layer Properties panel, you can edit and modify various attributes of your active text layer:
Text
Under Text, tap font type and font style fields to view the drop-down list and select the desired option.
Line and character spacing: You can adjust the line and character spacing in your text by either manually typing in the desired Font size, Tracking, Leading, Kerning, Baseline shift, Vertical scale, and Horizontal scale, or using the slider to set a value.
To learn more about line and character spacing, see Line and character spacing in Photoshop desktop.
Character formatting: Set a color for your text from the color box. You can also play around with character formatting options — Auto leading, All caps, Small caps, Superscript, Subscript, Underline, and Strikethrough.
To learn more about character formatting, see Format characters in Photoshop desktop.
Paragraph
Under Paragraph, you can select a suitable option to align and justify your text.
Blending options
Under Blending options, you can use the Opacity slider to change the opacity of your text. Also, you can select a Blend Mode for your text. To learn more about blending options, see Work with layers.
Add clipped adjustment
Adds a clipped adjustment layer to your type layer. To learn more about clipped adjustments, see Work with layers.
To view, browse, and add Adobe or custom fonts in the font picker, follow these quick steps:
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Tap this font dropdown to display the font browser menu where you can search for tons of system fonts.
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Choose your preferred font from the Recent list of fonts and variations of your preferred font will appear in the following panel.
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Tap More fonts to access popular Adobe Fonts by Type (tag). You can also tap the Creative Cloud mobile app link at the bottom of the panel and follow the prompts to add more fonts.
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Tap the magnifying glass icon at the top of the panel to search for fonts by name.
Note:
Users with Creative Cloud accounts can view and tap the '+' icon to add custom (non-proprietary), TTF, or OTF fonts to the font picker. However, this icon is not available for users with enterprise or team accounts.
Font substitutions
In Photoshop on the iPad, not all fonts are available by default when you work with the Type tool. If there is a font in your document that is not available on your iPad and you try to edit text, the font gets substituted with another font that is available on your iPad. On attempting to transform text, the type layer is flattened to pixels without losing your font.
Auto-activate Adobe Fonts
Photoshop on the iPad automatically finds and updates any missing font in your photoshop document if the font is available in Adobe Fonts. You no longer have to worry about having missing font errors when working on a Type layer. When you open a document that contains fonts you don’t currently have installed on your device, Photoshop on the iPad automatically activates Adobe Fonts in the background without you having to close your document.
If your Photoshop document has a font that is not available on your iPad, you will see a sync icon on the Type layer in the layer properties panel. It means Photoshop on the iPad is looking for that missing font in Adobe Fonts. If the same font is available in Adobe Fonts, Photoshop will find and download it for the current session and replace the sync icon with a 'T'.
Also, with the free Adobe Creative Cloud mobile app for iOS, you can browse and install more than 1,300 fonts. If you have a paid Creative Cloud plan, that increases your font selection to more than 18,000 fonts. Any fonts you install via the Adobe Creative Cloud mobile app is available for use in Photoshop on your iPad.
Work with missing fonts and accent characters
You can also install the missing fonts on your iPad (iOS13.1 and later versions) using Adobe’s Creative Cloud mobile app for iOS.
To learn more about missing fonts and accent characters, see: