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I find that when using Photoshop CS6, the type cursor will have a dotted square around it (rather than a dotted circle) when hovering over a shape layer.
How will clicking and typing be any different than if I were to click and type outside of the shape layer?
Thank you.
The dotted square is the default type tool, yielding point text (on a click) or frame text (on click & drag). The dotted circle is the 'use path as frame' tool: click with this cursor on the shape layer, and start typing away. Your text will use the shape as a frame. This means that it will flow inside the shape, and automatically generates line breaks to do so, but will never show outside of the shape.
