Photoshop Text Tips, Tricks And Keyboard Shortcuts

In this Photoshop tips & tricks tutorial, we're going to look at some handy tricks and keyboard shortcuts for working with Photoshop text. We'll be looking at things like how to quickly select words, lines and paragraphs, how to easily switch between fonts, how to quickly access bold and italic font styles, leading, tracking and kerning, resizing, aligning and justifying text, and more!

Selecting All Text On A Type Layer

Here's some sample text that I borrowed from our tutorial on image pixels:

Photoshop Text Tips: Some sample text.

All of this text is on a single Type layer in the Layers palette. To select all the text on a Type layer, simply double-click directly on the Type layer's thumbnail:

Photoshop Text Tips: Double-click directly on the Type layer's thumbnail (the "T") to select all text on the layer at once.