Here's why I think this is kinda confusing, even though I'm starting to understand certain things:
You create a red text and save it as "Red Text" as your style. SO now you have None and Red Text.
Now you create a new text layer but you don't change it to None so the Red Text style is selected. You change the style and now the Red Text has the + sign. If you click Clearn Override, it applies the Red Text syle. Perfect.
But if you go to None and click Clear Override, it goes to this style that I can't even change so I will always have the + sign no matter what. That's a bit confusing...
Here's how I think it should work (let me know if that makes any sense):
Every time you create a new text layer (and then hit the Accept check mark at the top), it creates a new "Default" style so whenever you want to go back to whatever you created initially, you know where to find it.
The None would be some kind of default for the whole document (I'm still trying to figure out how to change it and get rid of the + sign there.
Then you would be able to create new styles, the way it is now...
What do you think?
"What do you think?"
Since you ask, I will tell you. Sit down first, though. 😊
I use styles in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, and Excel. Keeping the discussion to Adobe, they work extremely well in InDesign, moderately well in Illustrator, and are finicky in Photoshop.
Photoshop, at its core, is an image editor. When I started using it, the Type tool created pixels on the current layer. While text has gotten better in PS, it is years behind Illustrator and Light Years behind InDesign.
There are two kinds of styles: Paragraph and Character. In your case, where you have one word per layer, I would use only Paragraph styles and set the Character style to None. The paragraph style is intended for the entire paragraph, and Character styles are intended for the characters that need to be different from the rest of the paragraph.
"None" as a Character style means: use the Paragraph style. I use Character styles for Bold, Italics, Bold Italic, SMALL CAPS, etc., which need to have different formatting for part of a paragraph — never for the entire paragraph.
By default, Photoshop comes with one Paragraph style called Basic, which can be redefined. When you choose "None" for the Character style, it means use the Paragraph style it has been assigned to. That's why "None" in Character styles cannot have Style Options and will not ever do what you want it to do in your document.
The beauty of using styles to format text is that if you remove the overrides first, then editing the style will change all text using the style.
Bottom line for this document: select your text and set the Character Style to None. Use Paragraph Styles instead. And don't use Transform — that will mess things up.
Let me know if this helps,
Jane
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