Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

23. Turn on the every-line composer. Flush
    left type is sometimes said to be ragged
    right, and the body text in this compo-
    sition is nothing if not a case in point.
    To even out the choppy edges, switch
    to the Paragraph panel by clicking its
    tab in the Character panel cluster. Then
    click the in the top-right corner of the
    panel to bring up the panel menu and
    choose Adobe Every-line Composer.
    Photoshop better aligns the right edges
    of the type, as in Figure 11-16.

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Photoshop’s single-line composer (active prior to

Step 23) ana lyzes each line of type on its own,

in a vacuum. The every-line composer (shown in

Figure 11-16) examines the entire text layer as

a whole and spaces the text to give it the most

even appearance possible.

24. Justify the type. Less ragged text is great, but let’s say you want both
    the left and right edges to be flush. Click the fourth icon ( ) in the
    top row of the Paragraph panel to justify the paragraph and leave
    the last line flush left, as shown in Figure 11-17. You can also press
    Ctrl+Shift+J (�-Shift-J).

Every-line composer

Single-line composer

Figure 11-16.

Figure 11-17.

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