Help! Question from a newbie

[brianpi]

Hello and thank you in advance for any help provided. I had a brochure designed for my business in photoshop (.psd file). I now need to edit only the text of my borchure, the rest of the design is fine. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on regular photoshop and then countless hours teaching myself how to edit text in a design. Will ELEMENTS let me edit text in a .psd file? I can justify spending the money for Elements IF it allows me to edit the design.

P.S. I had someone look at the file in regular photoshop and tell me it is editable, since he doesnt have elements he doesnt know if it would be sufficient.

[skstarkiller]

Yes it will. You'll need to have the same font installed on your machine to edit the text.

[ATR]

Just some cautions,

About being told that the Photoshop Text is editable...
Is the text layer that you are going to edit in the Layers Palette as a layer or as part of a Layer Group? If I recall a previous Thread, Elements will not open the Photoshop Layer Group so that you can get a the Text Layer included there. If that is the case, it might work if the person with Photoshop gives you the file with the Layer Group open. Not sure.

About font....
It has already been mentioned here. I would just add...if you do not have the font that was used in Photoshop, you may get a substitution message. No sure.

ATR

[skstarkiller]

Right, if you don't have the font, Elements will warn you it doesn't have the font and it will need to make a substitution if you edit the type layer. But, it will preserve the look of the font in the image if you don't mess with it.

As another caution, make sure the text layer hasn't been rasterized by the designer. Sometimes designers will do this to avoid editing and the problem of substitution mentioned above.

[GaryK]

I would guess worst case, providing the whole brochure hasn't been flattened into one layer, is, you delete the type layer and make a new one. Or just turn it off and do a new one.

[mom to 4]

Gary:

That is exactly what I would do! That may not be the way the experts would do it, but easy works for me? Unless, of course, there is some reason I shouldn't do it that way!?

[rmartin]

I would agree with the others that even if the font is in a layers group, you could delete it and add a new text layer.

Also, I don't know if it's possible to send a psd through e-mail, but if it is, you could send it to me, and I could see if it will work with elements for you.

thetoothy1@msn.com

[Wendy]

Hi Brian ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

Maybe the person who looked at the file for you could make the changes ?

Wendy

[Grant]

BrianPi

All this may be academic if the person that originally did your brochure in PDF has put pass word protection on it. The other thing is there will be a learning curve with Elements and depending on how much money you can make an Hour it may be cheaper just to pay someone to edit your brochure.

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[JonE]

If all else fails -- the text layer has been merged or cannot otherwise be edited -- and if your brochure will not be visually be ruined by doing this, you should be able to cover over the old text with new text. For example, you could cover the existing text with a white filled rectangle, then create new text over the white box. I'm sure there are several different ways to do this but they would be more apparent if looking at your actual file. For instance, depending on the colors etc. you might be able to use the magic wand with 'contiguous' checked and select each letter, adding to your selection as you go, then convert (for example) the selected black text to red to vanish in the red background, or you could clone over it with your background color, then add your new text. If the text is over an image, not so easy!