Image going red after text being be typed in Photoshop 6.0

[Saul Saunders]

Hey guys i work for a web design company and im new to photoshop. Im getting really good with it but now the program is wierd. Every time i make an image i want to put text on its fine, when i use the text tool everythink goes pink and the font is messed up. When im done i get the following ant line around the letters *the selection tool or what ever its called.

Help is a must, please do any of you know?

The whole office has been turning backwards for the answer.

[Saul Saunders]

Hey guys i work for a web design company and im new to photoshop. Im getting really good with it but now the program is wierd. Every time i make an image i want to put text on its fine, when i use the text tool everythink goes pink and the font is messed up. When im done i get the following ant line around the letters *the selection tool or what ever its called.

Help is a must, please do any of you know?

The whole office has been turning backwards for the answer.

[Saul Saunders]

Hey guys i work for a web design company and im new to photoshop. Im getting really good with it but now the program is wierd. Every time i make an image i want to put text on its fine, when i use the text tool everythink goes pink and the font is messed up. When im done i get the following ant line around the letters *the selection tool or what ever its called.

Help is a must, please do any of you know?

The whole office has been turning backwards for the answer.

[Saul Saunders]

Yah i pic the solid t its always been on the solid T

Still does pink, and the fonts diffrent......but im using the same settings
Tahoma 12 Crisp Bold

[Cheesefood]

Are you typing into a layer or a channel?

[Colin Walls]

Pink implies a mask of some kind. Wonder if you're getting into QuickMask somehow. When you get pink, try typing Q. I am clutching at straws ...

[ID. Awe]

If what you see are 'pink blocks' around each letter, this indicates that there is some kerning value or other modification to the type that does not exist within the font itself, as an example you may find that style field has the word "normal" or "semibold" in quotes which indicates that value does not exist.

Because Photoshop always starts with the last font selected if you had a font that had a "semi-bold" value, but changed to a font that did not have one, PS does not change the style value to one that exists for that font. I think this is where the problem may be.

[Mark Hiers]

You're either using the Type Mask Tool or your image is in Index Color mode.

[dave milbut]

um, duh. yea, type mask, not text selection. don't swim an type... makes you loopy! thanks mark! in his case (from the other thread) i'll bet it's index color mode... i had forgotten about that one!

[dave milbut]

or as mark said, make sure you're not typing in an image that's in indexed color mode.

how many of this thread are there anyway? :)

[ID. Awe]

If what you see are 'pink blocks' around each letter, this indicates that there is some kerning value or other modification to the type that does not exist within the font itself, as an example you may find that style field has the word "normal" or "semibold" in quotes which indicates that value does not exist.

Because Photoshop always starts with the last font selected if you had a font that had a "semi-bold" value, but changed to a font that did not have one, PS does not change the style value to one that exists for that font. I think this is where the problem may be.

[Unregistered]

the same happened to me and my picture was in black and white. the way i fixed it was by starting with the origional image and then just go to help and write "color mode", and i did "RGB Color" and then i tried text and it worked.

[Unregistered]

Thank you for the one who answered: "You're either using the Type Mask Tool or your image is in Index Color mode."