The graphics editor Adobe Photoshop is designed to work with images, but designers who use it often have to deal with text elements as well. For example, sometimes a picture must contain a table with some data. Creation and filling of this element in the graphical editor itself is a rather laborious process. It is much more productive to use Photoshop in conjunction with the spreadsheet editor Microsoft Office Excel.
Necessary
Graphic editor Adobe Photoshop, spreadsheet editor Microsoft Office Excel
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare a table in Excel that you want to place on the image you are editing in Photoshop. To do this, start the application and fill in the data with the required number of cells in the sheet automatically created by the program. At the first stage, there is no need to worry about its appearance, but only about its filling. Don't forget about the ability to combine cells in Excel - this allows you to create complex structures in columns and rows.
Step 2
Use the sorting and conditional formatting capabilities of the spreadsheet editor to sequence data rows in the correct order. In addition, conditional formatting can be applied to graphic design - this tool allows you to change the background, font, border of cells in accordance with the data they contain. For example, you can color the cells in ascending order of values by transitioning from red to green, highlight the minimum and maximum values, etc. The button with the drop-down list containing the conditional formatting settings has been placed in the "Styles" group of commands on the "Main" tab of the spreadsheet editor.
Step 3
When finished with filling the table, select the color of the frame, background, text and other design elements. Select one of the available design options - their list is expanded by clicking on the "Cell Styles" button in the "Styles" group of commands on the "Home" tab. If all the options placed there do not suit you, select the entire table, right-click the selection and select "Format cells" from the context menu. In the window that opens, on the tabs "Font", "Border" and "Fill" there are design tools with which you need to give the desired appearance to the table.
Step 4
Place the created table on the clipboard. To do this, place the cursor in the lower-right cell (Ctrl + End), select all filled cells (Ctrl + Shift + Home) and copy them (Ctrl + C).
Step 5
Switch to the graphics editor and select the one above which you want to place the table in the list of layers. Then paste the contents of the clipboard - press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + V. Photoshop will add the copied table to the center of the image, creating a separate layer for it. After that, you can start positioning and processing the inserted table.
