Comments on: Photoshop Tip #3: Bullets in Photoshop

By: Angie

Angie — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:12:07 +0000

If you utilize the different font capabilities and go through the webdings or dingbat fonts you will probably to find something that fits with what you were looking for.

In my case I used a tick which happens to be a 4 in the Monotype Sorts font.

Hope that helps

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:30:03 +0000

It aligns perfectly in your example, but when I do the exact same thing it takes the first letters in the line and negatively indents them as well. Are you using a mac or pc? Could the difference in the way it works and the confusion depends on the operating system? I do this all the time in InDesign, but it works using tabs between the bullet and first letter, which I haven’t anything found comparable in Photoshop.

By: mcdotca

mcdotca — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:01:59 +0000

nice tip!! worked wonderfully

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:58:47 +0000

Ian – Everyone seems to be giving you a hard time about this, but I thought it was perfect! Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!!

By: Ed Ramos

Ed Ramos — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:20:02 +0000

You might want to also use the Character Map Tool in Windows to find/select the bullet symbol. In Windows Vista look in;
START > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > SYSTEM TOOLS > CHARACTER MAP

Open the Character Map Tool, check the ‘Advanced view’ check box at the bottom of the tool window to open the search box. Enter the name of the symbol, bullet. Click search and bingo there it is. Then just copy/paste it where you want it.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:16:23 +0000

Hi Jack, I think this is how a lot of people do bullets, but when you get multiple lines on one bullet they will not always line up properly and you will have to mess around with the space between letters. I also do not think this is a faster method. Once you set up the the method used above you simply hit enter for each bullet and they line up automatically.

Note: alt 0149 is a PC only fast key.

By: Jack Dallas

Jack Dallas — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:53:51 +0000

The tip above is good but to simplify things just go to the position where you want your bullet and hold down the Alt key and enter 0149 from your keypad. Once your bullet is entered I just hit the spacebar a few times to line up the first line with the rest of the text.
This needs to be done for each bullet. Just go to the first line of each bullet item and do the Alt 0149 thing.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:39:34 +0000

Eric, it doesn’t actually generate the list like HTML does, you have to input the numbers or bullets on each line, but if you have a long list and want consistent looking bulleted lists or numbers it’s the best way I know of in Photoshop.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:38:18 +0000

I’m confused. -15 first indent in photoshop doesn’t seem to give me bullets…. I get a -15 first indent.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:24:45 +0000

Scott, the negative number is for the bullets. You outdent only the first line of text with a number or bullet character.