When in this mode (edit existing text) you can carefully hover the arrow to the edges of the text box and resize the bounding box without altering the shape of the text itself. This doesnРІР‚в„ўt happen in Photoshop if that NEW text box tool is active, it will try to place a new box anywhere you click sometimes overlapping another. This drove me batty for a while because I was used to clicking anywhere inside an existing text box and the blinking cursor would pop in automatically - usually at the end of the last letter. A click now will put you into text editing mode, not new text box mode. To produce the edit text tool, hover the text tool over EXISTING text and the cursor changes to the simple insertion shape (without the dotted box). The EDIT text cursor looks very much like the ordinary cursor people are familiar with (no dotted box). To produce the new text box cursor just select the text tool and move over to a new work area. The NEW text box cursor looks like a text insertion cursor (often seen in word processing) WITH a dotted box around it. The Photoshop text tool has two types of cursors: Some features are accessible in either mode. Selecting the text tool and clicking over existing text will produce this bounding box. The TEXT bounding box is there for highlighting, re-typing and selecting the margins of the actual text/paragraph etc. This can make cool effects but usually you want the text to stay the way the font was designed. Note: If you try to resize the box as an object, it also distorts/stretches the text inside. The direct selection tool (a) wonРІР‚в„ўt recognize it. Clicking once on the text layer pallet and selecting the move tool (v) will produce this bounding box. Its OBJECT bounding box is there for moving the whole text layer, rotating it, duplicating it and distorting. No Doubt About It!Р”Р„ Photoshop text box can display one of two types of bounding boxes: Photoshop (CS4) can produce incredible, professional, amazing text images. In other words, the box is always transparent and all effects apply to the font shapes typed inside by the user. In Photoshop, a text box is mostly about the text inside and less about the box that surrounds it. See below for solutions to making it seem that the text box is filled with color, bordered, semi-tansparent etc. Solution: You CAN do anything you want in Photoshop -we know itРІР‚в„ўs GREAT - but the steps are not always so easy.

Add border to text dot