You can do it in 2 steps within Corel PHOTO-PAINT:

1. Ctrl+C to copy the text layer.
2. File >> New From Clipboard.

Yet another reason my File >> New From Clipboard request should be added.

Please support the request here: File >> New From Clipboard.

Also, you can't copy layers in Photoshop for this File >> New From Clipboard to be of any use, so that's a separate feature request that I've made here: Layers: Copy, Cut and Paste.

People keep wondering what a practical use for these features would be, but when I read your request I was thinking, "Oh man! This is super easy in Corel PHOTO-PAINT!"

Intuitive...

D Fosse wrote:

 

WILL YOU GET LOST JED! If I need to be taught about Corel PHOTO-PAINT I'll go to their forum!

 

Jesus!

Hmm... well, soon as the day comes that Photoshop can do everything that PHOTO-PAINT can? Then I'll get lost.

Until then... nice to meet you D Fosse.

Besides, I'm not attempting to "teach" anyone PHOTO-PAINT, but get certain feature requests implemented into Photoshop that would be useful.

D Fosse wrote:

 

Well then submit your ****** feature requests where they belong and stop spamming this forum.

My "feature request" is in the feature request forum, referenced here as it is applicable to this discussion.

I don't see the problem.

This forum calls each thread a discussion (e.g. Start a New Discussion).

That's why I said, "this discussion."

And apparently it is you guys I need to convince that these are "valid" feature requests because it's you guys who keep bashing on them. And I would imagine that Adobe takes that into consideration.

You, specifically, don't.

But if people are arguing about it then I feel I haven't made a good enough argument; thus, I try again.

(Peter_Lancaster) wrote:

 

wouldn't it be nice, if while we're scaling like this (ctrl+T), (or even ctrl+click an item in the layers palette to select it) to have a "Resize Canvas to selected" ???

You can. Just hit Image >> Crop. Not very intuitive, but it gets the job done by cropping to your selection. Unless, of course, you wanted to achieve this WHILE scaling? I don't see this happening because it hasn't even performed the anti-aliasing on the text yet.

There should be some better cropping options though. In Corel PHOTO-PAINT, the Image >> Crop command actually opens up into additional menu commands:

1. Crop to Mask
2. Crop Border Color...
3. Expand
4. Crop Overlay

I've never really used anything but Crop to Mask, but you can see that there are additional cropping options that can be useful for some people.

In Photoshop though, they call it a Selection, so it would be Image >> Crop >> Crop to Selection.

Something like that.

Thali-Hoo wrote:

 

crop is in no way the same thing as "resize canvas" as Peter was originally suggesting. resizing the canvas is non-destructive to the psd contents and its layers in contrast to "cropping" which removes everything outside of the document bounds (in photoshop, since we are on the ADOBE forums!!!...hint hint Jed).

Peter didn't say ANYTHING about wanting a non-destructive way of doing it. In fact, he didn't really say much at all about the other content on the page – just the text overflowing the document.

Touché

Zeno Bokor wrote:

 

cropping is only deleting anything outside the crop bounds when Cropped Area is set to Delete in the Options bar

In the options bar? You mean like the property bar you see when the crop tool is selected? I don't see this "Cropped Area" option here at all. Am I looking in the wrong place? CS4 Extended.

Still don't see where I can set Cropped Area to delete. This is a screenshot of my options bar.

Ah, now I feel stupid.

Fireworks has this feature, and very handy it is too:

     Trim canvas: [ctrl]+[alt]+[t] will crop the canvas to fit the contents

     Fit canvas: [ctrl]+[alt]+[f] will expand the canvas to fit the contents

It would be good if this feature were available in Photoshop too.