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Unified Text Engine in Photoshop

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Photoshop User Guide
Introduction to Photoshop
1. Dream it. Make it.
2. What's new in Photoshop
3. Edit your first photo
4. Create documents
5. Photoshop | Common Questions
6. Photoshop system requirements
7. Migrate presets, actions, and settings
8. Get to know Photoshop
Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
1. Work with Illustrator artwork in Photoshop
2. Work with Photoshop files in InDesign
3. Substance 3D Materials for Photoshop
4. Photoshop and Adobe Stock
5. Use the Capture in-app extension in Photoshop
6. Creative Cloud Libraries
7. Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop
8. Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
9. Grid and guides
10. Creating actions
11. Undo and history
Photoshop on the iPad
1. Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
2. Get to know the workspace
3. System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
4. Create, open, and export documents
5. Add photos
6. Work with layers
7. Draw and paint with brushes
8. Make selections and add masks
9. Retouch your composites
10. Work with adjustment layers
11. Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
12. Apply transform operations
13. Crop and rotate your composites
14. Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
15. Work with Type layers
16. Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
17. Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
18. Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
19. Manage app settings
20. Touch shortcuts and gestures
21. Keyboard shortcuts
22. Edit your image size
23. Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
24. Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
25. Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop
26. Work with Camera Raw files
27. Create and work with Smart Objects
28. Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
Photoshop on the web beta
1. Common questions | Photoshop on the web beta
2. Introduction to the workspace
3. System requirements | Photoshop on the web beta
4. Keyboard shortcuts | Photoshop on the web beta
5. Supported file types | Photoshop on the web beta
6. Open and work with cloud documents
7. Apply limited edits to your cloud documents
8. Collaborate with stakeholders
Cloud documents
1. Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
2. Photoshop cloud documents | Workflow questions
3. Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
4. Upgrade cloud storage for Photoshop
5. Unable to create or save a cloud document
6. Solve Photoshop cloud document errors
7. Collect cloud document sync logs
8. Share access and edit your cloud documents
9. Share files and comment in-app
Workspace
1. Workspace basics
2. Preferences
3. Learn faster with the Photoshop Discover Panel
4. Create documents
5. Place files
6. Default keyboard shortcuts
7. Customize keyboard shortcuts
8. Tool galleries
9. Performance preferences
10. Use tools
11. Presets
12. Grid and guides
13. Touch gestures
14. Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
15. Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
16. Technology previews
17. Metadata and notes
18. Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
19. Place Photoshop images in other applications
20. Rulers
21. Show or hide non-printing Extras
22. Specify columns for an image
23. Undo and history
24. Panels and menus
25. Position elements with snapping
26. Position with the Ruler tool
Web, screen, and app design
1. Photoshop for design
2. Artboards
3. Device Preview
4. Copy CSS from layers
5. Slice web pages
6. HTML options for slices
7. Modify slice layout
8. Work with web graphics
9. Create web photo galleries
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2. Work with raster and vector images
3. Image size and resolution
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9. Customize color pickers and swatches
10. High dynamic range images
11. Match colors in your image
12. Convert between color modes
13. Color modes
14. Erase parts of an image
15. Blending modes
16. Choose colors
17. Customize indexed color tables
18. Image information
19. Distort filters are unavailable
20. About color
21. Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
22. Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels
23. Sample
24. Color mode or Image mode
25. Color cast
26. Add a conditional mode change to an action
27. Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
28. Bit depth and preferences
Layers
1. Layer basics
2. Nondestructive editing
3. Create and manage layers and groups
4. Select, group, and link layers
5. Place images into frames
6. Layer opacity and blending
7. Mask layers
8. Apply Smart Filters
9. Layer comps
10. Move, stack, and lock layers
11. Mask layers with vector masks
12. Manage layers and groups
13. Layer effects and styles
14. Edit layer masks
15. Extract assets
16. Reveal layers with clipping masks
17. Generate image assets from layers
18. Work with Smart Objects
19. Blending modes
20. Combine multiple images into a group portrait
21. Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
22. Align and distribute layers
23. Copy CSS from layers
24. Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
25. Knockout to reveal content from other layers
Selections
1. Get started with selections
2. Make selections in your composite
3. Select and Mask workspace
4. Select with the marquee tools
5. Select with the lasso tools
6. Adjust pixel selections
7. Move, copy, and delete selected pixels
8. Create a temporary quick mask
9. Select a color range in an image
10. Convert between paths and selection borders
11. Channel basics
12. Save selections and alpha channel masks
13. Select the image areas in focus
14. Duplicate, split, and merge channels
15. Channel calculations
Image adjustments
1. Replace object colors
2. Perspective warp
3. Reduce camera shake blurring
4. Healing brush examples
5. Export color lookup tables
6. Adjust image sharpness and blur
7. Understand color adjustments
8. Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
9. Adjust shadow and highlight detail
10. Levels adjustment
11. Adjust hue and saturation
12. Adjust vibrance
13. Adjust color saturation in image areas
14. Make quick tonal adjustments
15. Apply special color effects to images
16. Enhance your image with color balance adjustments
17. High dynamic range images
18. View histograms and pixel values
19. Match colors in your image
20. Crop and straighten photos
21. Convert a color image to black and white
22. Adjustment and fill layers
23. Curves adjustment
24. Blending modes
25. Target images for press
26. Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
27. Adjust HDR exposure and toning
28. Dodge or burn image areas
29. Make selective color adjustments
Adobe Camera Raw
1. Camera Raw system requirements
2. What's new in Camera Raw
3. Introduction to Camera Raw
4. Create panoramas
5. Supported lenses
6. Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
7. Default keyboard shortcuts
8. Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw
9. Radial Filter in Camera Raw
10. Manage Camera Raw settings
11. Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw
12. Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw
13. Rotate, crop, and adjust images
14. Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw
15. Process versions in Camera Raw
16. Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
Image repair and restoration
1. Remove objects from your photos with Content-Aware Fill
2. Content-Aware Patch and Move
3. Retouch and repair photos
4. Correct image distortion and noise
5. Basic troubleshooting steps to fix most issues
Image enhancement and transformation
1. Replace sky in your images
2. Transform objects
3. Adjust crop, rotation, and canvas size
4. How to crop and straighten photos
5. Create and edit panoramic images
6. Warp images, shapes, and paths
7. Vanishing Point
8. Content-aware scaling
9. Transform images, shapes, and paths
Drawing and painting
1. Paint symmetrical patterns
2. Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
3. About drawing
4. Draw and edit shapes
5. Painting tools
6. Create and modify brushes
7. Blending modes
8. Add color to paths
9. Edit paths
10. Paint with the Mixer Brush
11. Brush presets
12. Gradients
13. Gradient interpolation
14. Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths
15. Draw with the Pen tools
16. Create patterns
17. Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
18. Manage paths
19. Manage pattern libraries and presets
20. Draw or paint with a graphics tablet
21. Create textured brushes
22. Add dynamic elements to brushes
23. Gradient
24. Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
25. Paint with a pattern
26. Sync presets on multiple devices
Text
1. Add and edit the text
2. Unified Text Engine
3. Work with OpenType SVG fonts
4. Format characters
5. Format paragraphs
6. How to create type effects
7. Edit text
8. Line and character spacing
9. Arabic and Hebrew type
10. Fonts
11. Troubleshoot fonts
12. Asian type
13. Create type
14. Text Engine error using Type tool in Photoshop | Windows 8
Filters and effects
1. Use the Liquify filter
2. Use the Blur Gallery
3. Filter basics
4. Filter effects reference
5. Add Lighting Effects
6. Use the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
7. Use the Oil Paint filter
8. Use the Liquify filter
9. Layer effects and styles
10. Apply specific filters
11. Smudge image areas
Saving and exporting
1. Save your files in Photoshop
2. Export your files in Photoshop
3. Supported file formats
4. Save files in graphics formats
5. Move designs between Photoshop and Illustrator
6. Save and export video and animations
7. Save PDF files
8. Digimarc copyright protection
Color Management
1. Understanding color management
2. Keeping colors consistent
3. Color settings
4. Duotones
5. Work with color profiles
6. Color-managing documents for online viewing
7. Color-managing documents when printing
8. Color-managing imported images
9. Proofing colors
Web, screen, and app design
1. Photoshop for design
2. Artboards
3. Device Preview
4. Copy CSS from layers
5. Slice web pages
6. HTML options for slices
7. Modify slice layout
8. Work with web graphics
9. Create web photo galleries
Video and animation
1. Video editing in Photoshop
2. Edit video and animation layers
3. Video and animation overview
4. Preview video and animations
5. Paint frames in video layers
6. Import video files and image sequences
7. Create frame animations
8. Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview)
9. Create timeline animations
10. Create images for video
Printing
1. Print 3D objects
2. Print from Photoshop
3. Print with color management
4. Contact Sheets and PDF Presentations
5. Print photos in a picture package layout
6. Print spot colors
7. Print images to a commercial printing press
8. Improve color prints from Photoshop
9. Troubleshoot printing problems | Photoshop
Automation
1. Creating actions
2. Create data-driven graphics
3. Scripting
4. Process a batch of files
5. Play and manage actions
6. Add conditional actions
7. About actions and the Actions panel
8. Record tools in actions
9. Add a conditional mode change to an action
10. Photoshop UI toolkit for plug-ins and scripts
Content authenticity
1. Learn about content credentials
2. Identity and provenance for NFTs
3. Connect accounts for creative attribution
Photoshop 3D
1. Photoshop 3D | Common questions around discontinued 3D features

Updated in Photoshop 23.0 (October 2021 release)

Unified Text Engine replaces legacy text engines and enables advanced typographic features for international languages and scripts across the world, including Arabic, Hebrew, Indic scripts, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

With Unified Text Engine, all advanced typographic will be automatically available and grouped together in the Photoshop Type Layer Properties panel. This will eliminate the need to switch text engines per language.

Key enhancements include:

Improved text shaping using open-sourced HarfBuzz text shaping engine for Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and all non-Latin scripts
Improved support for bi-directional text using FriBidi
Consolidated Arabic and Japanese advanced typographic features are now additionally located in the Type Layer Properties panel

Improvements with the introduction of Unified Text Engine

Text engine composer switching user interface under Photoshop > Preferences > Type has been removed. New Type layers will support all scripts and languages by default. Users can manually switch legacy text engine composer using the Paragraph panel flyout menu when opening a legacy text engine Photoshop document.
Middle Eastern and East Asian advanced typographic features are always available on the Type Layer Properties panel.
Unlike the previous Photoshop versions, the default paragraph direction attribute right-to-left is enabled only when the UI language is set to: “English: Arabic enabled”, “English: Hebrew enabled”, or “French: North Africa”.
Photoshop no longer supports Type 1 fonts and Arabic Axt fonts. If a legacy Photoshop document is opened with Type 1 fonts, Photoshop will treat them as missing fonts.

Type 1 Font Support End of Life with Photoshop 23.0 Release

Photoshop 23.0 no longer supports PostScript Type 1 fonts. We have updated, modernized, and unified our text engine with the Harfbuzz script shaper to support all scripts.

Type 1 fonts (also known as PostScript, PS1, T1, Adobe Type 1, Multiple Master, or MM) are a format within the font industry, replaced by the larger glyph sets. These fonts are not supported in most browsers and most operating systems, and Adobe, are moving forward with support and more robust technical possibilities of OpenType format fonts.

Photoshop 23.0 and later will not recognize Type 1 fonts, even if you have them installed in your desktop operating system:

Type 1 fonts will not appear in the Photoshop Fonts menu.
Previously installed Type 1 fonts will no longer work in Photoshop files.
Opening Photoshop files with existing Type 1 fonts will treat the Type 1 fonts as missing fonts in the document.

If the font you need is not already available to you in the Adobe Fonts library, you can get supported Adobe-owned fonts from our partner fontspring.

Customers who’ve purchased Type 1 fonts not owned by Adobe can contact the font foundry that published the font(s) to learn about the availability of an upgrade path to the OpenType format.

Note: Converting Type 1 fonts to the OpenType format is possible but may produce a sub-optimal result. Additionally, converting your files may be prohibited by the font foundry’s End User License Agreement. Please consult the license agreement or contact the foundry directly for more information.

Supported international scripts

Besides Latin, the Unified Text Engine composer supports the following languages and scripts:

Indic	Middle Eastern	South East Asian*	CJK
Bengali Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu	Arabic Hebrew For details, see Arabic and Hebrew.	Thai Sinhalese Burmese Khmer Lao *Introduced in the October 2018 release of Photoshop CC (20.0)	Chinese Japanese Korean

Photoshop supports scripts from around the world with shaping and basic common attributes (no advanced Typographic features).

Photoshop only supports advanced typographic features for Latin, Arabic, and Japanese. For all other scripts, only shaping and common type attributes are supported.

Note:

Text features across Adobe applications do not necessarily have feature parity as each application can rely on different text engines. Also, text features can vary according to the primary usage of the application (image editing, page layout, illustration, and so on), so the preservation of formatting, style, and editability across applications can also vary according to the type treatments you choose to apply.

South East Asian (SEA) languages or scripts are not currently supported on all Adobe products. Moving SEA text from an Adobe app that currently supports SEA scripts to an application that does not support them, is likely to result in the loss of some or all text copy and formatting edits. In this case, note the following:

Image files may need to be flattened before moving from Photoshop to other applications.
Text files from Adobe Illustrator may need to be converted to outlines before usage in other applications.
Text conversions may result in a loss of editability when moved from one application to another.

Pro tip: South East Asian scripts are not currently supported by all products, but need some composer switching in InDesign and Illustrator.

Install relevant language and font packs (Windows)

To use these languages properly on Windows, install the Language and Font packs for the particular language you want to use.

For details, see Microsoft's Help documentation: Language Packs.

Create documents using international languages, scripts, and type

Create a document

To create a document using an international language:

Open a document, select a Type tool, and create a Type layer.
In the Character panel, set the desired language. (Language selection is needed only for hyphenation and spelling.)

Set the language in the Type Layer Properties panel

Or, set the language in the Character panel
Based on the language you select, set an appropriate font. For example, if you choose the Thai language, set a Thai font, such as Adobe Thai or Noto Sans Thai.
Copy and paste the text composed in your chosen language. If you have a language-specific keyboard, simply type the text.