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lumos-ch
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May 21, 2026
Question

How to add invisible/blank Unicode characters for text spacing and alignment in Photoshop Elements?

  • May 21, 2026
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Hi everyone,

I create social media graphics in Photoshop Elements and often run into spacing issues with text layers. The built-in kerning and tracking controls are finicky, and sometimes I need to push text elements apart without adding visible characters.

I also want to create "invisible" text layers as placeholders or spacers in my templates, but PSE doesn't seem to accept pure blank spaces as valid text input.

Is there a free online tool that generates invisible/blank Unicode characters I can copy and paste directly into Photoshop Elements text boxes? Something browser-based with no downloads would be ideal.

Bonus if the same site has other text formatting tools too.

Thanks!

    1 reply

    Greg_S.
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 21, 2026

    I’m not sure if this will help you with your templates, but you can turn off the visibility of a text layer in the Layers panel.