How to easily align text properly

[AndrewsR]

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?

[Muqqarib Hassan]

Hi, Please see this video how you can easy align the text.

Thanks.

[Muqqarib Hassan]

Hi, Or check this video for alignment tips.

[jane-e]

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.

[Jeff Arola]

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