I’ll be doing a tutorial on paragraph and character styles soon. If you use the Space Before / After Paragraph options all you do it enter in a number of inches, while the paragraphs are selected, and voila it adds it for you! This tool is especially handy if you are formatting a large book or other text within InDesign, and are able to use the paragraph styles which basically saves your paragraph formatting for you. Space Before / After Paragraph: The Adobe Suite offers a handy thing that saves you from having to add space before and after paragraphs manually. Like every other function just select the text and apply it to said text. This basically just indents, show below, and increases readability distinguishes one paragraph from another. To apply this just select the paragraph and type the amount of space for the indent you would like to use within the space next to the label (shown above).įirst Line Left Indent: Similar to a tab, the First Line Left Indent can, when a number is entered into its selection format like the name of the function says the first line of the paragraph to the left. The Right Indent does the exact same thing but pushes the text to the right. The Left Indent is helpful when you possibly are using block quotes within InDesign. Indents (Left / Right): Left Indent bumps the whole selected text paragraph to the left, creating a small border around the left of the text. Here is an example of what each look like: To use any of these just click on their little icons, if your not sure which is what setting place your curser over it and a screen tip should pop up. Typically in newspaper alignment Left Justified is used, while in other things like school papers just plain Left is used. Each of these options vary the way the text is aligned and can change the look of your document drastically.
Text Alignment: Overall there are seven options for text alignment within the three programs, they are: Left, Center, Right, Left Justified, Center Justified, Right Justified (ONLY available in Illustrator and Photoshop), and just Justified.
To apply any of these options select the type tool, then your text box. If you need help with creating a text box check out my tutorial on custom text boxes, here. But both have fewer functions than InDesign,īefore you start with paragraph formatting of course you need text to edit. Photoshop and Illustrator both have the same exact paragraph window with the same functions, essentially the main functions of paragraph editing. Please NOTE that Photoshop does not offer a paragraph setting option within the control window.
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When using the Type Tool you can also easily access the paragraph settings, through the Control (AKA Options) Window. Here are some images and instructions how to get the paragraph settings within the control window for InDesign and Illustrator.