Bob McDonald from Akatombo Media was kind enough to share this trick with Photoshop text layers.
If you have lots of text layers that you want to make the same change to (for example, change the font, color — anything in the options bar), you DO NOT have to go to every text layer and make changes. (Which would take a lot of time.)
Instead, link all the text layers you want to change, then select one of them and use the option bar to make the changes WHILE holding the Shift key.
Thanks, Bob!
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November 30th, 2004 at 1:13 pm
hurrah for obscure, hand-twisting options…usability at its finest.
November 30th, 2004 at 3:32 pm
ROFL @ redux. Thanks for the tip!
November 30th, 2004 at 3:58 pm
Cool tip! Sometimes the simplest are the most useful!
:)
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:29 am
Change Multiple Text Layers in Photoshop
A long time ago (like over a year) I sent a photoshop tip to Corrie Haffly (sic?) who, at least at the time, was running the Sitepoint design blog. She published it, and I forgot about it, but a referrer in my logs reminded me of it. Since …
May 31st, 2006 at 2:55 am
I just tried that and it doesn’t work. Only the text layer which is selcted is changed (I want to change the font). All type layers are linked and I held shift while changing the font face in the options bar. I use PS 7.
Any ideas why this doesn’t work for me?
September 1st, 2006 at 2:28 am
Darren,
In PS8 It doesn’t work either but you can select all the layers you want to change in the layers palette and then change the properties without any shift pressing…
Hope it works on ps7.
Claudio
May 1st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Excellent post, saves me tons of time because I switch between editing with a Mac at work and a PC from home, fonts never quite seem to match even if they have the same font so this makes for a quick change. Thanks!
May 25th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
July 31st, 2007 at 6:38 pm
This was a great help, thanks! I use it when converting Fireworks files to Photoshop. Sometimes Fireworks converts typeface to Myriad for some reason.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:12 am
This just saved me hours of extra clicking. Woohoo!
PS 8.0 Mac OsX
June 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
doesn’t seem to work in CS3 when the linked text layers are in different groups… grrr! unless someone else has an idea how to do it? I’m assuming you hold shift while clicking the checkmark to accept the text changes on the option bar?