PSE text indent problem............

Thanks Ona.

There must be some interesting differences in US vs OZ software! There are no preferences under Edit but only under the bolded Photoshop Elements Editor. I had the Asian text option off. I did check reset this tool and will try again later today. I wanted to wait to install PSE15 til later but now I may do it and learn its quirks sooner rather than later!

Your link shows up as an error btw. ???

 

Ok, tool reset and nothing changed. It's really strange. I tried a new text box and once again in align left I get the indent.

 

Maybe it has to with paragraph set up, and any points you might have inadvertently put in this box. Specifically "C."


Here is the article I found:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/formatting-paragraphs.html

 

That is so weird! The only thing I can think to check is in the Paragraph Palette (options) is there anything besides a 0/zero in the "indent first line field"?
@cookingmylife

 

LOL Jenn - I just was thinking this and taking a snap shot of this too! I hope this is it?!?

 

Great minds, Jenn! I hope it's right also!
@jenn mccabe

 

Aww, I hope I remember this next time I want to do drop caps! I made so many individual text boxes last night!

 

I'm not sure how well it would work for this - unless you just want to have the first line indented for you drop cap. It doesn't look like there is an option to indent multiple lines of text. So I still think the multiple text boxes thing is the easiest.

 

Oh! I was just skimming.

 

Wow, I have to go back to the drawing board (get my book of notes out) and re-learn how to do a text box!! Use it or lose it, they say, and I have not been using the text box forever!!!!

 

@NancyP
-Select the Type tool.
-Create a New layer.
-And draw a rectangle/box with the Type tool - in the size you want for your journaling. Rough estimate is fine - because you can always adjust the size of the text box later.

*(As long as you have the Text tool selected -not the Move tool- you can use the little rectangles on the borders of the text box to stretch it out in length or width and also bring it in to make it smaller. If you try to do it with the Move tool, it will distort your text.)

Text boxes can be moved around on your page like any other object. So you can align them to make this journaling challenge work for you. Or- you can add a drop cap in the margin next to the journaling if you like.

Give a shout if you need more assistance.

 

if you do a period (.) then hit enter and start on next line? then rasterize the type when all set to go...make it a layer, not a text. and erase with eraser the period?
just a thought?

 

Oh there you go with that BIG word "RASTERIZE"!!!! Have still never learned what it means!!!!!

But thanks to Jenn for her tip. She saved me from having to go through that big notebook trying to find my notes on text boxes.

 

@cookingmylife - How did you get your PSE13 to indent in the first place? I couldn't figure it out in my PSE 14.

I do agree with the Jens that it has something to do with those text options. Unfortunately, that dialog box is not available in PSE. I'm thinking that your whole PSE needs reset. I've had different problems with text in the past and resetting PSE as a whole has fixed my problems.

Here's how to reset PSE.

• Close Photoshop Elements.
• Press and hold Ctrl Alt Shift (Mac: Cmd Opt Shift) and keep holding these keys as you restart Photoshop Elements.
• When you get a dialog box that says: Delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements settings file? you can let go of the keyboard keys and click YES.

If you had made any changes to Preferences prior to this, these will be lost, but it's a small loss compared with the gain of getting back to normal with PSE.

Hope that helps!

 

ras·ter·ize
ˈrastəˌrīz/
verb
COMPUTING

1. convert (an image stored as an outline) into pixels that can be displayed on a screen or printed.

bhahha that is the technical term..but this is it in Annese:
you make your text box, type your words,
get it spelled correct
then go to the layers palette(I hate that term too, the box that has your layers in it) and right click the layer of the text box.
a menu appears with lots of different choices.
Razerize Type is one.
if you click it, you can no longer edit the type/jounaling. It becomes like a word art you would get out of a kit. So you can play with it in different ways. Erasing and I like to warp the fire out of my journaling! lol

 

I thought that was "simplify" ????

 

You are correct Nancy... it's simplify in PSE and rasterize in Photoshop, but it means and does the same thing. They just use different terminology in the 2 programs. Yet, another way to boogle our brains... hehe