Tell Photoshop When You’re Done With Type

 

As you probably know, you can jump to most any tool in the Toolbox by pressing a single-key keyboard shortcut. (If you didn’t know that, sell your copy of Photoshop. Kidding. Just turn to Chapter 2 for some essential tips.) Here’s the problem: While creating type with the Type tool (T), if you press one of those one-key shortcuts (let’s say the letter P for the Pen tool), instead of jumping to the Pen tool, Photoshop types the letter “p”. It’ll drive you nuts. Okay, you won’t go nuts, but at the very least you’ll have a lot of typos. The reason is this: You have to tell Photoshop that you’re done editing your type. You do this in one of three ways: (1) Click on the checkmark icon at the far right of the Options Bar, (2) press the Enter key, or (3) switch to another tool manually by clicking on it in the Toolbox. Any of these three tells Photoshop that you’re done and lets you use the single-key shortcuts to switch tools.

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Removing Those Typographically Incorrect Spaces

If you’re trying to set type that looks typographically correct in Photoshop, there’s an old habit you’ll have to break, and that’s the curse of putting two spaces at the end of every sentence. This is a holdover from people who at one time used traditional typewriters, where adding two spaces was necessary, but in typesetting that’s a huge no-no. About 70% of the text I copy-and-paste from text files that people give me has two spaces, but I use this Photoshop tip to fix the problem in just seconds. First, go under the Edit menu and choose Find and Replace Text. In the Find field, press the Spacebar twice (entering two spaces), then in Change To, press the Spacebar just once. Click Change All, and every time Photoshop finds two spaces at the end of a sentence, it will replace it with just one, making you typographically correct.

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