Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P8: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. From the toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools, Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printer or graphic artist needs. | 186 Part II Creating Artwork and Logos Working with Numbers To create numbers in Photoshop just use the keyboard to type them in as you would any text. Then highlight the numbers and choose different fonts to find the one that you want. Figure 9-15 shows some examples. Adding numbers is done exactly the same way as adding text. inn Í2545Ố p apLjrus 123456 Lucinda CaCRgrạpíiy 123456 Playbill 123456 Arial Black 123456 Comic Sans Figure 9-15 Adding numbers is just like adding text Printing Numbers There are several ways to work with numbers and if you print a lot of them you might want to invest in a numbering press. These presses have screens on them that are permanently set up so it s easy to screen print numbers when necessary. The drawback of these presses is that a client might want a specific style or font. Take a look at the numbers on the football jerseys of professional teams each team has a different style of number. I don t screen print numbers because I don t get a huge call for that but if you do creating screens and saving them for those jobs is best. When I get a job requiring numbers I use the heat transfer machine. 187 Chapter 9 Working with Text and Numbers Summary In this chapter you learned practically everything there is to know about adding text in Photoshop. Adding text is probably the thing you ll do most often as it is necessary to denote a team name company name product or business. In Photoshop you can choose from several type tools including vertical and horizontal options. Type masks can be used to create type from an underlying image or to remove pixels from the image in the form of type. The options bar offers several ways to configure the text and text can be molded to fit different shapes even a circle. Filters and warp options can be used to further manipulate text and together offer an unlimited number of options. This page intentionally left .
