Create a Type Layer?

Get the Horizontal Type tool (T) from the Toolbox, and then click anywhere in your image and start typing. Boom—you’ve got a type layer. Now, at this point, as you type, your text will just keep going until it goes right off the edge of your image—it doesn’t wrap to the next line like it does in a regular text document (cool thing about layers: things on layers can extend off the image area without getting cut off. Even though you can’t see the parts that are off the screen, you can always pull them back into the image area). Back to our story. If you do want your text to wrap to the next line, then don’t just click and start typing. Instead, click-and-drag out a text box in the size of the column of text you want. Now when you start typing, when your text hits the end of the text box, it wraps to the next line like usual (as seen above). The rest is pretty much the same: to make changes to your text, highlight it, then up in the Options Bar, choose a new font, style, or size. Most of the type controls you’ll use will be up there, including alignment options (left, center, or right), color, etc. But, if you want some more advanced controls, click on the third icon from the right (it looks like a little panel). That brings up the Character and Paragraph panels where there are options to adjust the tracking (space between the letters of a word or words) or kerning (the space between two individual letters), as well as other cool type stuff, like baseline shift, superscript and subscript, horizontal and vertical scaling, and access to ligatures. Now, if any of those made you think, “What? I’ve never heard of those!” you probably don’t need to click on that little panel icon at all. Just stick with the stuff up in the Options Bar, and you’ll be good.