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How to Center Text in Photoshop

Josh Short
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This tutorial teaches you how to quickly center text in Photoshop. Centering text, or rather any layer, is a skill every creative professional should have. Here’s how to do it.

First, select the text layer you want to center in Photoshop. We will begin by centering the text inside the layer itself and then center the layer in the PSD itself. If you are reading this article just to center a non-text layer, skip the following section.

Center Text Inside a Layer

Now find the Paragraph panel. If you can’t locate it, go under the Window menu at the top of the screen and choose Paragraph.

Under the Window menu choose Paragraph

Inside the Paragraph panel click the Center text button. This icon functions and looks like what you would expect if you were in a program like Word or Outlook. Doing this will center the text inside the layer in Photoshop.

In the Paragraph panel select the “Center text” button

Next let’s center the layer.

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Center Any Layer in PS

Select the layer you want to center. Hit the “v” key to activate the Move Tool. In the Tool Options bar (very top of Photoshop by default) click the Align horizontal centers and Align vertical centers buttons.

Click those two buttons that the arrows are pointing to

If these are grayed out and you cannot click them, click the three dots, the Align and Distribute button, then in the bottom right corner change Align To: from Selection to Canvas. Now the buttons should no longer be grayed out.

Change “Align To:” to “Canvas”

If your text is Area Type instead of Point Type, it may be too high on your screen after doing the previous step. Take the bounding box and shrink the bottom of it so it butts up to the bottom of the last row of text in the layer. Then click Align vertical centers again.

If you’ve now gone through this tutorial and you still need help, please leave a comment and I’ll do what I can to help troubleshoot it. But if you can now center text in Photoshop, I hope you stick around and check out some of the other Photoshop tutorials on my website or consider signing up to get notified about new blog posts and happenings around EVF.

– Josh

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