Erasing text for typesetting...

Getting rid of the original text is pretty easy stuff. There are a few ways to go about it but I will mostly just go into one of those ways.

	The fastest way to erase text is to use the rectangle tool (U). Make a rectangle over the text you want to erase with the color white selected as the foreground color. When you release the mouse it creates a shape layer over the text.
	When you use the rectangle tool (U) you also want to have a group folder selected to put the shape layers into. Click on the folder icon at the bottom of the layers palette to create the folder. Make sure that group 1 folder is highlighted when you make your layers. This helps to prevent clutter in the layers palette. And also makes it possible to set the opacity of all the shape layers at once.
	Be careful to not erase more than the text and or not enough of the text. The brush tool (B) can clean up the little bits of extra text if need be. If you made to big of a rectangle just step backward (CTRL + Z) and do it again. Zoom in if you need to make sure you are making the right sized rectangle.

 

When erasing text there is a couple of instances where you don't want to erase. Text bubbles that contain only ellipses (...) or punctuation (?!). Little doodles in the text box such as sweat drops, irritation marks, and hearts to name a few. Sometimes the original alignment of these doodles doesn't work well with the text, in almost all cases you can use the marquee tool (M) to select the doodle and copy (CTRL + C) then select the area you want to move the doodle to with the marquee tool (M) and paste it (CTRL + V). This makes a new layer that belongs to this doodle alone. So if you find that the doodle isn't quite where you want it once you put the text in you can use the move tool (V) to move it around until it looks just how you want it to.

Sometimes the doodle is more complicated and you can't just copy and paste it and move it around, like when it is a face... In this case center the text in the bubble and use stroke to highlight the text.

So thems is the basics of erasing text. You can also just use the brush tool (B) but that does take more time and doesn't give you nice little layers that you set the opacity on for centering help when typesetting. Sometimes you will have text over drawing or tone and that is a little more complicated. I will go into that in the Redrawing detailed lines, patching, and cloning tutorials.

 

Now onto resizing your image for typesetting.

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