Wow, I feel like a little stupid!

kelley

kelley

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Okay, so you all have permission to laugh, but I literally JUST figured out that in Photoshop you can filter your fonts by category. When you click on the font choice, there's a drop down box at the top.
There is a category for handwritten and another for script which are the 2 types I most often use! One thing I can't stand is sifting through hundreds of fonts trying to find something I want to use. I can't believe I've been scrapping for almost 10 years and didn't realize this!! This is flippin life-changing!! (or at least scrap-changing?)
 
Um.... is this a thing in Elements too? Now I'm going to have to go look lol. You're not the only one who didn't notice this!
 
Don't feel silly, I don't think it's been a feature for that long! I don't think Adobe does a great job of telling consumers what features have been added when they do updates.
 
I didn't know this either. Can you do a screen shot of where you select the 'sort by style' ? I can't see it in my version of photoshop, so maybe mine isn't new enough?
 
jacinda said:
I didn't know this either. Can you do a screen shot of where you select the 'sort by style' ? I can't see it in my version of photoshop, so maybe mine isn't new enough?
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Sure! I have CC, so maybe it is a new thing. When I found it today, I just assumed it had been there the whole time haha.

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Um, yeah, I don't think PS7 has that. Cool feature though - I would definitely use it if I had it.
 
lol yes I knew that but I think I have found that it doesn't do a good job at knowing which ones are handwritten or not. Like there might be a flaw somewhere on how they classify all those categories...
 
Leablahblah said:
lol yes I knew that but I think I have found that it doesn't do a good job at knowing which ones are handwritten or not. Like there might be a flaw somewhere on how they classify all those categories...
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Yeah, true. It doesn't seem perfect, but it's nice to at least be able to filter out some of the boring stuff and get a semi-nice list!
 
That's a great feature, but do you have to have your fonts installed for it to work?
I use Nexus Font to temporarily install my fonts so they don't take up space.
 
kelley said:
Okay, so you all have permission to laugh, but I literally JUST figured out that in Photoshop you can filter your fonts by category. When you click on the font choice, there's a drop down box at the top.
There is a category for handwritten and another for script which are the 2 types I most often use! One thing I can't stand is sifting through hundreds of fonts trying to find something I want to use. I can't believe I've been scrapping for almost 10 years and didn't realize this!! This is flippin life-changing!! (or at least scrap-changing?)
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Well add me to the list because I didn't know this either :blink::blink::o:o
 
yeah, no laughing because CS5 doesn't have it and I looked for it all night hoping it were true!!

I'm glad your program has that feature, that's pretty awesome!
 
craftytam said:
That's a great feature, but do you have to have your fonts installed for it to work?
I use Nexus Font to temporarily install my fonts so they don't take up space.
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I had no idea that you could do this either.... do use a mac or PC?
 
craftytam said:
Really?? I didn't even know there was a paid version!! I guess I'm a font peon. :D I just looked and I have 3,608 fonts. How many do you have??
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I have over 4,000 installed and another 2,500 that I've not installed because my computer is slow enough already!

I got a pop-up warning when I linked all of my fonts saying that 2,000 was max for the free version and gave me a link to buy the paid version. I decided I didn't need it that much so I never did anything else with it. :blink:
 
craftytam said:
Really?? I didn't even know there was a paid version!! I guess I'm a font peon. :D I just looked and I have 3,608 fonts. How many do you have??
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maybe I downloaded it from a bad site and they were trying to steal my information?
Where did you get yours because none of the sites that I'm Googling right now look like the site that I initially downloaded it from!
 
craftytam said:
Lori, I use a PC. Nexus Font is awesome! It's free & I've used it for years. You can catalog fonts by type, but I haven't taken the time to do that.
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I had Nexus Font. I loved it, however upon getting Windows 10 I found out that it won't work with it. :(
 
That would be a fun feature! My version doesn't have it. I don't use CC though. I'd kind of like to, but I'm sticking with what I have that is paid for. ;) Work is going to set me up with CC. I'm just waiting on them to get around to getting my new computer together at work. I work in school technology and there are always fires to put out so I don't know when they will actually get my new system set up.
 
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