Text won't show

July 12, 2008, 3:39 AM

Hiya, I was messing around with PS CS2 today, and I encountered a rather odd problem.

I was trying to add text to the sig I was making. However, it didn't show.

I mean, in the layers sections, I have a text layer, so theoretically there is text, but it didn't show up on the sig O_o

The colour of the text was very different from the sig colour, so I would've seen it, and the size of the text was large enough to be seen. And yes, it was the top layer.

Please help.

Um, I guess I should add that this problem happened after I downloaded some "Galaxy" brushes; after I change to that brush in my PS program, when I go to use text, I encounter the problem O_o

I don't think it's a virus though...

July 12, 2008, 4:17 AM

i dont know much at all about ps but i read some fonts in cs2 are currupt? but im guessing youve used them before so it might have something to do with what ever u downloaded =d

July 12, 2008, 7:34 AM

hmm . . . Galaxy brushes need to be resized sometimes, and I've encountered problems with text when I used CS2 but most of the time they work, and if you think the reason is Galaxy Brushes, try moving them from Photoshop brushes and replace it with another brushes and then try.

July 13, 2008, 2:45 AM

Ah, this has happened to me quite a few times. It usually happens when you have something like the font or layer titile selected and it doesn't think that you're trying to type in some text...

July 13, 2008, 2:54 AM

Thanks for the replies. The problem has seemed to fix itself though O_o

Hopefully it won't happen again

July 20, 2008, 8:28 AM

I've encountered this problem before. Aages ago sadly, so I can't remember how I solved it.

If the sig's on the top layer, you could save it as a .jpg or .png and then open that and add the text afterwards. It wouldn't look any different.