When trying to resize a text box in Photoshop, it is stretching my type instead of just making the box larger. It is a text box and not a bounding box. It just started doing this out of the blue. How can I fix this?
29.6k 14 14 gold badges 53 53 silver badges 105 105 bronze badges asked Nov 12, 2014 at 15:46 311 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 3 3 bronze badgesYour text within the layer is being rendered as 'point text'. You need to make the text 'paragraph text'.
Select and activate the layer that contains your text from the layers palette.
With the layer active, goto Type > Convert to Paragraph text. You should now be able to click into the text and see a bounding box that can be resized without resizing or rescaling the text inside.
answered Apr 12, 2015 at 13:40 371 3 3 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges Why would "Convert to Paragraph Text" be disabled on my computer? Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 11:05Figured it out: you have to make sure that the "Horizontal Type tool" is not selected, i.e. by clicking on the Move tool.
Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 11:08This is tricky. Sometimes, in some text layers, I get this option — either from the layer panel, or from Type > Convert to Paragraph Text. But once I've used a shape to fit the text within, that option disappears, no matter what I do (I can even delete the shape afterwards). There must be a trick to this!
Commented Jul 20 at 16:50Click in the text box with the Type tool ( T ) to make your text cursor blink. Alternatively you can also double click the layer image. Then click & drag from the box's corners to resize it.
29.6k 14 14 gold badges 53 53 silver badges 105 105 bronze badges answered Nov 12, 2014 at 16:03 bapugraphics bapugraphics 841 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 9 9 bronze badgesIf it's only a text like below:
Then you can use Ctrl + T to scale it into bigger or smaller size.
But if it's a text box like below:
Then you have to click on it with the Text Tool T and then scale it into bigger or smaller size.
If you wondering how this happens. When you want to type a text in Photoshop using the text tool, select the text tool T then click somewhere in the screen to start typing, but if you click ed then dragged, it will become a text box.
answered Apr 12, 2015 at 16:08 Ali Almoullim Ali Almoullim 121 4 4 bronze badgesWhen you have a text box, you need to double click on the text layer before you can resize the text box, other wise you will stretch the text.
answered Nov 12, 2014 at 15:50 492 4 4 silver badges 7 7 bronze badgesI've tried and tried, but whatever this trick was supposed to accomplish, it probably worked in 2014, but not in 2024 any longer.
Commented Jul 20 at 16:59Using shift-click and dragging the text box from any corner will force it to retain the original proportions as you resize it. This is also the case for many other programs.
answered Nov 12, 2014 at 16:39 sharedphysics sharedphysics 169 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges Aye, but the text will also be proportionally stretched, which is not what the OP wanted. Commented Jul 20 at 16:58I just encountered the same problem. Found this thread but no answer. Messed around with the options for a bit and found the culprit.
Uncheck the following option.
In newer versions of Photoshop, it's hidden under the gear icon:
This! I've got a fresh install of the latest CC and I needed to do this (i.e. that option is now unchecked by default)
Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 6:51While I'm certain I have seen this option a billion times before, since upgrading to Photoshop 2024, I cannot find it any longer — and neither does the built-in help. Where exactly did that come from? I suppose it's somewhere on the Move tool at the very top (as per the image shown) but I don't see it at all.
Commented Jul 20 at 16:38@GwynethLlewelyn The option is now hidden under the gear icon (Photoshop 2024 v25.11). I've updated my answer with a screenshot.
Commented Aug 25 at 13:10What worked for me, was clicking the 'fi' button in the Character options box, ubder the options for the sizing of the font and bolding/italic/etc. Unselect that and you can resize normally.
9,999 10 10 gold badges 48 48 silver badges 83 83 bronze badges answered Mar 29, 2018 at 8:51The 'fi' button. You know that's just to turn ligatures on/off, right? Why should that have any influence in the resizing option — at least using the Latin character set?
Commented Jul 20 at 16:43I had the same issue. Im on CC. Here is how I fixed mine.
It erased any styles associated with that text box. Hope this helps.
answered Sep 17, 2019 at 16:45 toast2town toast2town 1 1 1 bronze badge Heh. I wish it were that simple. In my case, this essentially does nothing whatsoever. Commented Jul 20 at 17:00By default, Photoshop will set the leading to (Auto) : when the text box is resized, the font is also resized using the same ratios in font size and leading.
The way to keep the font size fixed to a certain point size, while allowing the text box to be resized (so that the text flow is changed, as desired, to fit in the new dimensions), is to set the leading to a fixed value. This turns off Photoshop's automatic font resizing as well.
The correct fixed value for the leading is, obviously, dependent on the font type and size, but some typographers suggest that it should be around 120-150% the font's point size.
From the Character panel, the setting for the leading is to the right of the font size itself:
While this is counter-intuitive, it works!
It's quite likely that either the defaults for Photoshop changed at some point (i.e., (Auto) became the 'new' default), or you might accidentally reset this to (Auto) without intention — this is one of those settings that persist across sessions.
