Photoshop Tip #3: Bullets in Photoshop
April 12th, 2008It’s time for another quick Photoshop tip. The other day I was working on an HTML mockup in Photoshop and said, “Hey wouldn’t it be great if there were bullets”. My co-worker turns around and says you can make them, and it’s super easy. It’s not really like ordered or unordered lists in HTML; you still have to type in the numbers or bullets manually, but it’s as close as you’ll get.
Once you have your list created in a text box, go to the Paragraph window. Go to the Indent first line field and type in a negative value. For this example I have 11 pixel Verdana text with a -15px first indent.
From the screenshot above you can see we now have perfect bullets in our mockup.
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5 Comments to “ Photoshop Tip #3: Bullets in Photoshop ”
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Thanks a lot .. its a nice trick
…only your example doesnt contain any bullets, its a numbered list… this doesn’t show anyone how to insert bullets in photoshop.
Hi Lukas,
You can use anything character you want, just paste a bullet in where the numbers are. If you aren’t sure how to create a bullet just copy and paste this one. “•”
I guess I’m just slow but this doesn’t have enough information for me. Where exactly do I paste the bullet in? Also when I put a -24 in my text it moves everything over to the left, what I want is to move to the right and have a bullet inserted in front of the text so I set it to 24. Why are you saying to use a negative number?
Scott, the negative number is for the bullets. You outdent only the first line of text with a number or bullet character.