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austinmdiamond
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January 27, 2022
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Modifying Tab/Indent Settings [and more…]

  • January 27, 2022
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Hi! I am creating an illustrated children's book in Photoshop. How can I change the distance/settings for when I press Tab? I know InDesign and Illustrator can do this...but I would really like to stick with Photoshop, as I do all the art/page creation there.

 

Thank you!

 

Austin 🙂

 

 

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jane-e
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January 28, 2022

@austinmdiamond 

 

At its core, Photoshop is an image editor. It has limited support for text and you cannot set tab stops in Photoshop.

 

It is also not the best software to create a book. Both Illustrator and InDesign have support for tab stops, but InDesign is hands down the only one you want to use for creating books. You can place a link to your images (File > Place) so they will print at full resolution.

 

Jane

 

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    austinmdiamondAuthor
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    January 28, 2022

    Hi Jane! Thank you for your response.

     

    I was afraid of that. The trouble is, in my book there are a lot of hand-drawn illustrations, layers and paintings that are spread over the page, and would be very difficult and time-consuming to place one by one in InDesign. The text moves in and out of the illustrations as well, in many places -- it's not like there are just a couple "blocks" of text that would be easily placed in InDesign after the fact. It seems like doing all of this, or leaving blank spaces in Photoshop where I would theoretically place the text, would be incredibly time-consuming, confusing and difficult. What am I missing here? There must be an easier way to do this...:)

    jane-e
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    January 28, 2022

    @austinmdiamond 

     

    You can load all of the images to your cursor at once, then click-click-click to place them on the pages. You can also apply an Object Style to the graphic frame as the default before you place the images.

    • InDesign > File > Place > Select > Okay
    • Bridge > Drag and drop
    • Finder > Drag and drop

     

    The properly linked files will show in the Links panel. Photoshop does not have a Links panel.

     

     

    Can I move this thread to the InDesign forum where others can chime in?

     

    If yes, then please:

    • give an example of the text the moves in and out of the illustrations
    • tell us the final output: print, PDF, ePub, other?
    • does it need to be Section 508 compliant (read out loud by screen readers)?

     

    I've been formatting books for over 30 years, and one thing to remember is that doing it right in the beginning saves countless hours when the changes start pouring in at the end.

     

    Let me know if I can move your thread. 😊

     

    ~ Jane

     

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