Select Text in Photoshop Elements- Instructions

Select Text in Photoshop Elements: Overview

            You can select text in Photoshop Elements by choosing the type tool you used to create the text. Then click into the text to select to place it into “Edit” mode. Click and drag over the text to select within the text bounding box or within the lines of point text. Doing this then highlights and selects the text. You can then use the buttons in the Tool Options Bar to change the formatting of the selected text.

            There are also several other ways to select text in Photoshop Elements when in “Edit” mode. You can choose “Select| All” from the Menu Bar to select all of the text in the layer. Also, as when using word processing applications, you can double-click a single word to select it. You can triple-click a line of text to select it. You can also quadruple-click a paragraph to select it. When editing type layers, you can use most of the traditional methods of text selection.

Select Text in Photoshop Elements- Instructions: A picture of a user selecting paragraph text within Photoshop Elements.

Select Text in Photoshop Elements: Instructions

1. To select text in Photoshop Elements, select the type tool used to create the text from the Toolbox and Tool Options Bar.
2. Then click into the text you want to edit to place it into “Edit” mode.
3. Then click and drag over the text that you want to select to highlight it.
4. Alternatively, to select all the text, choose “Edit| Select All” from the Menu Bar
5. Alternatively, to select a word, double-click the word.
6. To select a line, triple-click the line.
7. To select a paragraph, quadruple-click (four times) the paragraph.
8. If you want to change the formatting of the selected text, use the buttons in the Tool Options Bar.

Select Text in Photoshop Elements: Video Lesson

            The following video lesson, titled “Selecting Text,” shows you how to select text in Photoshop Elements. This video lesson is from our complete Photoshop Elements tutorial, titled “Mastering Photoshop Elements Made Easy v.2020.”