How to easily align text properly

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October 11, 2018
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Here is an ongoing issue I face every single day in Photoshop CC and I'm hoping there is some more creative answer to it.

I have multiple text items; like these: Test Testing i am another test

When I select all three and do alignment (so Align vertical centers) it ends up that they are in a place where the "e" in all 3 are not on the same horizontal line. Because the first word has a caps and the second has a "g" and the third has neither - Photoshop can't center them "properly"

One trick I try is to use the TT (All Caps) then Align vertical and then TT again... and that works in this test! But it fails if the font has a character with a dangly bit like a Y or something (happens time to time).

Is there some other method other than the TT and then manually drawing a line under each one to ensure they are on the same line?

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Try this Align text layers to baseline v1.1 script from here:

https://www.adobeexchange.com/creativecloud.details.100407.html

before running script

after running script

jane-e

Community Expert

If you have InDesign or Illustrator, then press Tab once between columns and set the tab marker with the Tabs panel.

Photoshop is not a text editor and does not let you set the position of a tab character, so you have to do work-arounds to cope with ascenders, descenders, and varying type sizes.

You could drag out a text frame and put them all in one frame to keep the baseline consistent. Then enable the grid or choose View > New Guide Layout to add column guides to make a best guess or measure for an exact number.