Hello, I am trying to write one sentence to use as a t-shirt design in photshop. I am having trouble getting my text to line up. What's the trick in typing and spacing nice looking text? It doesn't let me use enter for spaceing a second line. I want it to look like this - Example example example
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When you are using the text tool you can set the paragraph format. Look for the icons near where you set the size and font, they look similar to the icons you'd see in any text program... like bundle of lines lining up to the left, right, centered, etc.

Hope that helps!

And make sure that you drag that text box out large. Sometimes, after hitting 'enter' the second line of text is there... it's just "off the bottom of the box" and invisible. The box needs to be larger.

There are several ways to do what you are looking for if I understand your question correctly. I use Photoshop, not Elements, so I hope all the features are available. If I give wrong advice I hope someone will correct me.

If the problem is that you are selecting the text tool, clicking on your image, and then typing, you are going to get a single line of type. You can hit enter to switch it to the next line and so on. That works a lot of the time.

However, you also have the (not obvious choice) of clicking and , without letting go of the mouse, dragging a box selection over your image right where you want it (holding the space bar down before you let up the mouse lets you move the box instead of resizing it, then let go the space bar and you can keep resizing it. When you let up on the mouse, that text box shape will be what your text shapes itself into no matter what edits you do to size, spacing and such.

Photoshop also lets you put type on a line, curve, or shape, or fit it into that shape. Do a google search on that- it's too complicated for here.

If the problem is things like the spacing between lines, the spacing between letters, the width of the letters or words, or the alignment of the edges of the words, all that can be modified using the Character Palette. You have near total control on a letter by letter, word by word or line by line basis. If that W is too far from the h, or the second line is way too far from the first, or everything lines up except that "Massachusetts" hangs over just a hair too much, that's the set of controls to use. Again, try googling "photoshop character palette" for details.

Don't create a text box, ...with the text tool just click once and start typing. In the Character palette to the right of the text size is the line-spacing. BUT, select another tool to exit the text tool and then go back to it, have the layer selected, don't highlight the text, now use the line-spacing and it will affect all that you typed.

If you want to affect just one line highlight it with text tool then make your adjustments in the character palette.