1) You may have the alignment on the type tool set for Right. Or you could have some extreme line spacing set for the type. There are a few other potential issues like that - things that essentially put the type off the page so you can’t see it. Here’s how to find out if you actually have the type. Zoom all the way out - so you have LOTS and LOTS of gray space around your page. Select the text layer in the layer palette. Hit ctrl+T on the keyboard (transform). If the text exists off the page, you’ll see the transform handles show up. Put your cursor in the middle of the box if it is there and drag the box into the frame of your document. If that works, pick through your type settings to try to figure out what is set wrong, because it will continue to happen. 2) When you just click in the image with the text tool, you get a text insertion point. When you type, you should see the text, but it is not paragraph formatted so, for example, if you don’t put in a return, it will run off the page. However, if you use the text tool and draw a box on your image, you will have created a text box that the type will wrap in. However, you will only see the text within the box you drew, the rest of it won’t show though you’ll see it in layer palette. Try double clicking on the layer (double click the T, not the whole layer). Hopefully you will see some handles - the lower right one would have an X in it. Grab that handle and pull and enlarge until you see your text. 3) You could have your image resolution set so stinking low you just can’t see the text! Go to the Image pulldown menu –> Image Size and see what the resolution is set for. If it’s something like 5, that’s definitely your problem. You need to reset the resolution, but before you do, unclick the box that says resample image so that you don’t resize the picture. Set it to at least 72 pixels per inch.