{"id":15797,"date":"2009-04-14T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/quick-text-tips-for-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2009-04-14T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:56:03","slug":"quick_text_tips_for_photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/quick_text_tips_for_photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick text tips for Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had gotten a few type-related questions, so thought I&#8217;d jot down a few suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for type styles (i.e. the ability to define a set of text characteristics as a style, then to modify the style &amp; have text layers updated) was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/sr.aspx?sm=T_2fIJmeIU9PKjpBjQByGurCjXkKbzd7f_2b9qv9wfb4COE_3d\">top requested feature<\/a> among those I proposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/02\/feedback_please_5.html\">improve management of complex PSDs<\/a>.  Photoshop doesn&#8217;t yet support type styles, but in the meantime a couple things may help:\n<ul>\n<li>You can select multiple text layers at once, then change their characteristics via the Character &amp; Paragraph panels.  Shift-clicking or Cmd\/Ctrl-clicking works, or you can select a text layer, then choose Select-&gt;Similar Layers to select other text layers.<\/li>\n<li>You can grab the type tool, set up the characteristics you want, then make a new tool preset (Window-&gt;Tool Presets, or hit that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/text_presets.html\">T-shaped icon<\/a> in the upper left corner (y\u2019know, the one that neither you nor any other human being has clicked :-)).  You can then choose among these presets via the Tool Presets panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Adobe Evangelist Julieanne Kost <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jkost\/2009\/04\/setting_new_type_tool_defaults.html\">pointed out<\/a> a trick I didn&#8217;t know: &#8220;To change the Type tool\u2019s default options, the key is to close all documents. Then choose the Type tool and select your font family, style, size, anti-aliasing, alignment and color. Whatever options you choose, will become your new default.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Julieanne makes another good point: While typing text, hitting Return will add a line break instead of getting you out of text mode.  Hit Cmd-Return (Mac)\/Ctrl-Return (Win) to get out of text mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more info, see my old <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/06\/12_tips_for_photoshop_text.html\">12 Tips for Photoshop Text<\/a> post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had gotten a few type-related questions, so thought I&#8217;d jot down a few suggestions: Support for type styles (i.e. the ability to define a set of text characteristics as a style, then to modify the style &amp; have text layers updated) was the top requested feature among those I proposed to improve management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}