Manic Monday Photoshop Tips: Type Tool Shortcuts

By special request from Weezer... today we’re going to look at keyboard shortcuts for working with type in Photoshop. Adding and editing type in your Photoshop documents will be a breeze when you add these keyboard commands to your workflow.

A couple of things to note when using the type tool.

• First, don’t press enter/return when you’re done typing since that just moves you to the next line.  Instead, if you have an extended keyboard with a number pad press the enter/return key on the number pad and your text will be entered. Or you can also use your mouse to click on  the icon on the type layer and your text will be entered.
• Second, keyboard shortcuts don't work while typing. This is one of those funny things that should be obvious but sometimes isn’t. So, to use the keyboard shortcuts below add your type to the document, enter it using one of the above methods, select the type and then use the keyboard shortcut with the type selected.

Type Tool Shortcuts:

Keyboard shortcuts listed with PC commands. For MAC’s use cmnd for ctrl and opt for alt.

Type Tool	T
Select all	Ctrl A
Select a word	Double click a word
Select a line	Triple click a word
Select paragraph	Quadruple click a word
Horizontal type tool + Ctrl + Shft + L, C, or R	Align left, center, or right
Vertical type tool + Ctrl + Shft + L, C, or R	Align top, center, or bottom
Ctrl + Shft + Y	Return to default font style
Ctrl + Shft + J	Justify paragraph, left aligns last line
Ctrl + Shft + F	Justify paragraph, justifies all
Ctrl + Ctrl + Shft + Optn + H	Toggle paragraph hyphenation on/off
Ctrl Shft < or >	Decrease or increase Photoshop type size of selected text 2 points or pixels (Hold down Option key to decrease/increase by 10)
Alt + Down Arrow or Up Arrow	Decrease or increase leading 2 points or pixels (Hold down Control key to decrease/increase by 10)
Shft + Alt + Down Arrow or Up Arrow	Decrease or increase baseline shift 2 points or pixels (Hold down Control key to decrease/increase by 10)
Alt Left Arrow or Right Arrow	Decrease or increase Photoshop kerning/tracking 20/1000 ems (Hold down Command key to decrease/increase by 10)

I’m looking forward to using the command to change the baseline ^UP or _DOWN! See you back here next Monday with another Photshop Tip. Any request? 

Marcie