To go directly to view 100% of your image, then double click the Zool tool.
To adjust the image directly to the screen size, double-click the Hand tool.
Other useful Shortcuts for zooming:
[Ctrl + =] - zoom in
[Ctrl + -] - zoom out
[Ctrl + 0] - fit to window

There are two ways for selecting the outline of your text. The first is to use ctrl-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the layer palette to Type Layers. The second way is to go to Select menu and select Load. When the dialog box opens, click OK and create a selection around your text.

To adjust the distance between the character of the baseline (as must be done on commercial symbols), highlight the character you want to format and press Shift-Option-up arrow (PC: Shift-Alt-up arrow) to move the character above the baseline. Use the same shortcut, but the down arrow key to move the text below the baseline (for cases such as H2O, etc).

When you digitized a Type layer, you no longer have the option to revert back to your text and change the spelling, the number of words, or spaces between words.
But why do so?
If you apply a filter, of any type (from the filter menu), you have to do that. This is why Type layers are different to images layers. …

The jelly-type effects are extremely impressive and are three-dimensional if the filter Un-sharp Mask (select from the menu Sharpen Filter). Yes, try the following values and run the filter twice:
Amount: 150%, Radius: 1 and Threshold: 7.
There is another way as well for achieving this:
You can use Adobe Illustrator (or Freehand, or CorelDRAW) to put your text on a path and then …