Unless it’s new in CS2, there are no type styles of the type you mention. What I would do, unless the text involved was extensive, would be to duplicate the text layer that holds the correct style, and then enter the new text into it.
Don
Thanks Don.
Unfortunately, it’s pretty extensive. I’m doing production work for a company that does about 34324 photoshop web page/html email comps. Eventually, much of it ends up as html text but all of the headers remain as images and meed to be formatted all purty like. I get a word file with all the copy and the paste it into photoshop. So I end up with 10-15 headers that require me to go in and either manually format or use the above copy+paste+retype+makesureIdidn’ttypeitwrong for each.
I think I’m just spoiled by programs that are built around text, not images. I might suggest we do them in Illustrator but I’m pretty much on the bottom of the ladder here and PS is pretty entrenched.
If anyone else has any ideas, please share!
Thanks,
Will
Another thought/question…
Is there a way to make PS respect the formatting of the text being pasted if it’s being pasted from another application? That way I could format it properly in Illustrator or Word and then just paste it in as is?
Thanks!
Will
If you’re to eventually save the headers as graphics instead of text, Illustrator may not offer any help since it’s a vector program and your graphics will eventually be pixel based. You should be able to get similar formatting by using the Character and Paragraph Palettes within Photoshop (kerning, leading, tracking, justify, etc.).
Perhaps you could take a screen shot, paste it into a Photoshop file and then select the text in Word and paste it into a text layer in Photoshop. Aligning the text to the screen shot shouldn’t be too daunting, plus you have way more options to embellish the look of the text in Photoshop than in Word.
Photoshop DOES have an option for using System Layout when using text. This is changeable within the Character Palette.
Peadge 🙂
Utterly shameful bump.
Will
Is there a way to make PS respect the formatting of the text being pasted if it’s being pasted from another application?
nope. text is text on the clipboard.
Two tricks you can try:
You can make Tool Presets for specific styles … this will only allow you to create NEW text layers using the style you want.
Also, if you link text layers together, select one of them, and hold down SHIFT when choosing new font or sizes, the formatting will be applied to ALL the linked layers.
Perhaps these options can help you.
Thanks dave and hanford. Off to the ‘feature request’ thread I guess… If only you could apply text presets to the middle of a text block…by keyboard shortcut! 🙂
Will
