Superscript and subscript text (also called superior and inferior text) are reduced-size text that is raised or lowered in relation to a font's baseline.

If the font does not include superscript or subscript characters, Photoshop generates faux superscript or subscript characters.

1. Select the type you want to change.

2. Do one of the following:

Click the Superscript button

Choose Superscript or Subscript from the Character panel menu. A check mark indicates that the option is selected.

Character styles | CS6

A character style includes character formatting attributes, and can be applied to characters, a paragraph, even or range of paragraphs. You can

create Character styles and then apply them later.

Choose Window > Character Styles to open the Character Styles panel.

To apply a character style, select the text or text layer and click a character style.

Type styles are hierarchical: Manual overrides supersede any applied character styles, which in turn replace applied paragraph styles. This

hierarchical approach lets you combine the efficiency of styles with the flexibility to customize your designs.

For a video overview, see

Paragraph and Character Styles in Photoshop CS6

Create a character style

1. If you want to base a new style on the formatting of existing text, select that text.

2. Choose New Character Style from the Character Styles panel menu.

Note:To create a style without first selecting text, click the Create New Style icon

without applying it to text, select an image layer, such as the Background.

Edit a character style

Double-click existing styles to edit them and update all associated text in the current document. Changing the style formatting updates all text to

which the style has been applied with the new format.

To edit a character style, do the following:

1. Double-click the style in the Character Styles panel.

2. To specify the formatting attributes, click a category (such as Basic Character Formats) on the left, and specify the attributes to add to the

style.

3. When you've finished specifying the formatting attributes, click OK.

Specifying default type styles | Creative Cloud only

Current character and paragraph styles can be saved as type defaults. These defaults are automatically applied to new Photoshop documents and

can also be applied to existing documents that don't already contain type styles. For more information, see Paragraph styles | CS6.

To save the current character and paragraph styles as the type defaults, do any of the following:

Choose Type > Save Default Type Styles.

In the Character Styles or the Paragraph Styles panel, choose Save Default Type Styles from the panel menu.

To apply the default Character and Paragraph styles to a document:

or the Small Caps button

in the Character panel.

or the Subscript button

in the Character panel.

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at the bottom of the Character Styles panel. To edit a style

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