Ok, so I as well as some other designers have been wanting to see Adobe Photoshop add the ability to have text styles and a text style manager for those styles. Why? Because when one has to work on a comp that contains hundreds of layers and making text style changes to each layer individually is f@king ridiculous! Why not make the ability to manage text styles in Photoshop easier! Well, at first I was going to do a mockup of what I thought the Photoshop Style Manager interface would look and function like in Photoshop CS3. But my friend and fellow designer Marty Dorion pointed out today that Adobe's InDesign has this functionality built in called Nested Styles. And that there is good documentation on how it works for a reference. So to save myself the time of making a mockup of how styling should work in Photoshop I am going to simply use InDesign's implementation of this feature as a way of possibly doing this in Photoshop. I will just list their top level bullet points on how styling of text works in InDesign and then you can go to Adobe's link to read and see how they do it along with a video of how it actually works. So if anyone who is responsible at Adobe for new Photoshop features ever sees this (Highly Unlikely) then maybe just maybe they will know what the hell I am talking about and actually give us this much needed functionality. So In a nutshell Adobe, please give us the ability within Photoshop to use styles and text style management, making it easier to reuse text properties and attributes in easy manner. I know I am not the only one who wants this so I am just a single voice speaking on behalf of many who are tired of tedious text manipulations for hundreds of layers.
InDesign has the ability to:
Control styles at import
Change your styles easily
Automate a style series
Photoshop does not have this functionality!
Quote - Although styles have been around for years to save time and ensure consistency, many designers still don’t take full advantage of them. Adobe® InDesign® CS2 adds even more reasons to use styles in your layouts, both for text and objects. In InDesign CS2, you’ll find more control over importing Microsoft Word styles, plus the new ability to create and apply styles to objects to ensure consistent drop shadows, color, and so forth. There are also many neat things to be done with text styles introduced in earlier versions of InDesign that you may not be taking advantage of. In the following 10 steps, let’s explore how to make the most of InDesign styles.
Read this Article to see how it could work:
Take advantage of InDesign styles Tutorial >>
Watch this video to see how it works: (Text Styles is at the end of the video)
OK…Christmas has already come and gone, I know, but it’s still technically the holiday season, and the title of this episode is the title of a Christmas CD project I recently designed. That’s the project I showcase in this episode, in which I demonstrate a holiday grab bag of InDesign goodies including: starting a document on a left-hand page, using the Slug area and Text Variables, placing InDesign documents inside of other InDesign documents, using frames to crop and manage vector shapes, inserting Column Breaks and other special break characters, and setting up looping Nested Styles.
