Copy paste text styles like MS Word?

[todd.guilmette]

Hello, Can't figure this out:

I want to be able to copy and paste just text format from one letter to another IN THE SAME TEXT LAYER.

Can this be done?

It will save me a lot of time with something I am doing if I don't have to apply text and color styles 20 times here.

Thanks.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Todd:

There isn't a copy styles function in Photoshop, but you can save your text formatting as either a Character Style (or Paragraph Style) and apply it to other text in that same file.

~Barb

[todd.guilmette]

Hi, I tried that, but when I put a new style in, it won't apply to just one letter, just the whole text layer.  I'm trying to make a sort of drop cap, where the first letter of every word is a different font.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Todd:

Paragraph styles are intended for an entire paragraph, character styles are for one or more selected letters. Which one did you create?

~Barb

[jane-e]

Hi Todd,

Are you saying you have 20 instances of a Drop Cap on one page? Typically you might have 3-4 across a two page spread.

~ Jane

[todd.guilmette]

This is what I am trying to do:  I'm trying to make the initial letters of each word be a different font and color, as seen in this pic on the first line:

I swear I used to be able to do this in old CS5 using Ctrl-Y to repeat last action, but it doesn't seem to work in this new version.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Todd:

• In Adobe Photoshop, Ctrl+Y is the shortcut for View > Proof Colors, and—to the best of my knowledge—it has always been Ctrl+Y.
• In Microsoft Word, Ctrl+Y will repeat the last action. I think maybe you are confusing the two applications.

Here is how a character style can solve this for you:

~Barb

[todd.guilmette]

Hi, thanks for your animation.  My program isn't behaving like that.  When I select a letter, the character style does not default to "None", and when I select a letter and click on the new style, nothing happens.

[lambiloon]

hi if you want to apply style on one letter then just type is separately and other in new layer.

Thank you