Working with Fonts/Logos

I'm Very new to Photoshop and just have probably a simple question. I tried searching different places, but I'm not even sure how to word the problem. I just want to write out some text and dress it up with some effects and then save the file and then add it to a site that I'm building in dreamweaver. I want to put the text over an image so you see only the text...like the background is invisible. I've tried a couple different ways but the background still covers the image I place it over. any help would be great!

try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG576haVw0Y

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Can you please show a screenshot?
Are there any placed raster images in your file? Are there any raster effects in your logo file? What are your Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings... ? Also, what are your Preferences > Scratch Disks settings, and how much free space do you have on that (those) drive(s)?
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Thnks rcraighead, glad to know about how CC runs. The logo was before a jpg then our designer transform it into vectors but today we were working she found complicated to move the image, it takes secooonds to make it move either from the keyboard or the mouse. I will ask her to see the symbol option, I think she is working with several logos (in vectors) at the same archive...so let see. Thanks buddy! I will be back with a screenshot

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Hi Pearl,
Welcome to the discussions and the AppleWorks forum.
I have used Word and WordPerfect on PCs and both of
those programs allow you to change the font of an
entire document by simply going to the top of the
document and changing the font.
AppleWorks follows the standard Macintosh 'noun-verb' grammar:
Select an object (noun) then perform an action (verb).
For this specific instance
noun: Select all (Edit > Select All, or press command-A)
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So far, I must admit, compared to Word and
WordPerfect I'm not all that impressed with
Appleworks.
Not surprising, considering the design parameters of the applications.
AppleWorks is not, and was never intended to be, a clone of MS Word (or of WordPerfect).
MS Word and WordPerfect are both single purpose (word processing applications, dedicated to doing that single job.
AppleWorks is a Jack-of-all-trades application capable of word processing, vector drawing, bitmap painting, spreadsheet calculations and data management plus basic network communications (up to version 5) or rudimentary slide show presentations (version 6).
It was designed to have similar capabilities to MicroSoft Works (not Word), and quickly supplanted that MS application on the Mac platform. Another design considerations was the limited memory and storage space available at the time of the initial design. AppleWorks (AW 6.2.9, OS X version only) does all the tasks above with an application that by itself takes about 7.6MB of hard disk space. The current version of MS Word fills about 20MB of your hard drive. Adding the rest of the MS Office suite bumps that to over 200 MB.
It [AppleWorks] seems to be rather behind the times
with what it can do.
True enough. AppleWorks 6 was released shortly before the first public issue of OS X (2000?), and was a 'Carbonisation' of AppleWorks meant, at least in part, to ensure that there would be a productivity application to run on OS X when it was publicly released. Since that time, Apple has seen fit to provide only minor updates to AppleWorks, and it's clear that the product is at the end of its development cycle, and is unlikely to see further updates or upgrades.
Steve Jobs as much as said that a year ago at the WWDC when he stated that in iWork, Apple was "building the successor to AppleWorks."
The old workhorse has come a long way, and it's not as fancy as some of those new-fangled automobiles, but it's still capable of doing a lot of work, and doing it well. If AppleWorks isn't capable of doing what you need, and you need, and are willing to pay for the extra bells and whistles offered by other applications, then by all means, spend the money to acquire them.
Regards,
Barry

Edit code for change drive letters in paths for links, to also work with Fonts that have been moved.

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