Add a Bullet Point in Photoshop

Photoshop is a flexible program that allows you to edit photos and add special features, including text. Its text handling has grown from a cumbersome dialog box to easy, on-the-image editing. If you're a Windows user, you might be a bit puzzled about how to add special characters such as bullet points to a Photoshop document. We'll show you a few ways to do this.

Steps

Use Key Commands

  1. Click on the line you want to edit. Press the Home key to move the cursor to the front of the line of text, or click to insert the cursor where you want the bullet point to appear.
    • Press the Alt key and type "0149" to insert a bullet point in the same font as the rest of the text in the block.
    • Mac users, press Option-8 to insert a bullet point.
    • This will not auto format line spacing and indentation the way adding a bullet point would in most office productivity suites.

Copy and Paste

  1. Create your bullet points in Word. You can build your bulleted list in Word, other text editing application such as Pages, or any word processing application you are familiar with.
    • Copy the block of correctly formatted text, and paste it into your Photoshop image.
    • This process works best if you have a lot of leeway in terms of text spacing and positioning, as it can be tricky to make small adjustments once you've pasted the text into the Photoshop file.
  2. Use the Character Map: Go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then Character Map. Find the bullet symbol, copy, and paste it.
  3. Alternately, you can use this: Copy this bullet symbol [ • ] and paste it into your Photoshop text.

Use a Symbol Font

  1. Switch fonts. Using a symbol font such as Wingdings. Pressing L will give you a bullet, though it might be a larger size than your other text. Simply select the bullet, and adjust the size as needed.

Create Art

  1. Enter the text. Create your text list, leaving room for your custom bullet.
  2. Draw your bullet: You can create a standard round dot, numbered list, checkbox style, stars or small graphics of some other kind using Photoshop's drawing tools.
    • Make it larger than you need, and scale it down so that it fits exactly. If you need to scale up the original bullet, it may look muddy or indistinct.
    • Move the bullet into place, and reduce it to fit.
    • Copy and paste the original for multiple bullets.
    • This method works best for more artistic bullet points, or if you need spacing that's difficult with text editors.

Tips

  • Inserting a bullet point may be easiest if you remain open-minded and don't attach yourself to just one method.
  • You can remap your hotkeys to make bullet points easier, if you plan to use them often. In Windows, access the run function in your "Start" menu, and type in "charmap." This will let you change the hotkeys for any given character you want to use.

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