Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Format text with YOUR OWN PARAGRAPH STYLE
Photoshop CS6 now includes paragraph and character
styles so you can quickly style a section of text and
save the style to use on other documents.
Paragraph styles control all the type elements of type.
Character styles control the font face, size, color,
kerning, leading — all the elements found in the
Character panel. If you apply a paragraph style and
then apply a new character style to a selection, the
character style overrides the original paragraph style.
The individual settings in the Character panel,
Paragraph panel, and Options bar continue to function
as in previous versions and override any applied style
on a one-time basis.
You can type a section of text into a document. Select
a portion of the text and set the options for both
character and paragraph styling using the Character
and Paragraph panels. You then create a new style
using the newly formatted text as an example. You
can select any other text and apply the new style with
one click. If you make a change to a character or
paragraph style, all instances of the style, even on
different layers, are automatically updated.
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1 Open a new document.
2 Click the Type tool.
3 Type a section of text.
4 Click Type.
5 Click Panels.
6 Click Character Styles Panel.
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The Character Style and
Paragraph Style panels open.
7 Repeat steps 4 to 6, selecting
Character Panel to open the
Character and Paragraph panels.
8 Click and drag to select a section
of the text.
Note: You can click four times on
one line to select the entire
paragraph or five times to select
the entire text.
9 In the Character panel, click to
change the font, size, leading,
kerning, and other options.
0 Click the Paragraph tab.
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