Can’t get out of “FAUX BOLD” setting on fonts!

[Kim Mackenzie]

Yeah, faux bold is kind of hidden – this is a common annoyance (happens to everyone once).

Bring up the Character palette
Click the little arrow in the upper right of the palette to access the flyout menu.
Uncheck Faux Bold

Ta da

[Richard Harrington]

Look at character palette

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[Stu Aull]

“ta – da” Indeed!
Oh-so-obvious when you know where to look!!! 🙂
Thanks fellas!
regards’
Stu Aull

[Sharlene Plescia]

I am still using photoshop 6.0 because I can’t afford to buy the newer versions. However, that is fine…it really is all I need.
I followed several suggestions to remove the faux bold setting in Character, however, after I reset that, I still cannot use the shape tool for text. It STILL says can’t use due to faux bold setting. Help????

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

By “shape” tool, do you mean “warp text”?

Considering it should work once you’ve removed faux bold, can you upload a file that you have this problem with?