Capturing attention with words has always been a timeless design strategy. Whether you’re creating eye-catching social media graphics, designing promotional banners, or creating visuals for websites, underlining text is a go-to technique for designers. Underlining text is easier than ever with Adobe Photoshop! Its intuitive character panel and toolbar options only take 2 minutes.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you 3 simple methods to underline text in Photoshop, step by step. Plus, we’ll reveal the shortcut keys for underlining text on both Mac and Windows—so you can work smarter, not harder. Get ready to level up your design game—let’s dive in!
How to Underline existing text in Photoshop at MAC
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Step 1: Select the type tool
Find the type tool from the left sidebar tool. Select the type toolbar. Now, click on your screen and drag the type tool to create a text box with existing text.
Step 2:
Double-press the text, or just Click Command Plus A selector for the text you want to underline.
Step 3: Open the character panel
Go to the right-hand toolbar, and here the Character panel is already ready to click on. If the character panel icon isn’t visible on your screen, you can find it on the menu bar. You can see a ‘Window’ section at the top of the screen. Here, Click it on and you’ll find the ‘Character’ option in the dropdown menu. Select it.
Step 4: Select underline Icon
Once the character panel displays several options, you need to click on Underline tool Icon (T) with an underline beneath it). You have now an underline on selected text.
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How to Highlight Text in Photoshop
Highlighting text in photoshop is as easy as underline text in Photoshop. Let’s see how to get your text highlighted
Step 1: Select the text tool
First, open Photoshop and get your selected image as a new layer in which you want to highlight text. Select a text tool from the sidebar tool or just press [T] to directly have a text tool on the screen.
Step 2: Create a text box
Now drag the tool on an image and create a textbox. And, type a text you want to highlight. Well, here you can select ‘move tool’ by pressing ‘v’ from your keyboard to place the text correctly in an image.
Step 3: Go to the character panel
Click on the ‘text layer’ and then select a ‘duplicate layer’. Now again click on the duplicate layer and go to the window from the top menu bar.
Select the ‘Character’ option from the drop-down menu. You’ll see a “Character panel” appear on the right side of the screen.
Step 4: Underline your text
Press the text tool again on the image and select the text. Now click on the underline icon from the ‘Character panel.’
Step 5: Adjust the text color
Change the color from color picker. Or, just clicking on any color present on your image can also be preferable. Once you’ve selected the color, click OK.
Step 6: Select the Convert To Shape option
Again, go to a layer option and click on a duplicate layer. Here, select the Convert to shape option.
Step 7: Select the path selection tool
Now, go to the left bar tool and select the Path selection tool option. Now click and drag it to select the text. And, then press the ‘Delete Key’ from the keyboard.
Do this again for other selected words you want to highlight. Get your duplicate layer below your original text layer.
8: Select direct selection tool
Again, go to the left sidebar tools panel and click on the path selection tool icon. Here, select the ‘direct selection tool’.
9: Get highlighted text
Select the entire underline below the text with two endpoints. Click and drag it above the text. You can adjust the highlighted color by clicking on it.
Repeat the same for other words you want to highlight.
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How do you underline text in Photoshop 2025?
The treasure part begins here! Try these 3 easy methods and be a pro on underline text in photoshop.
Underline text using the character panel
A character panel is a super fast and easy guide on underline text. Just give your 1 minute to have the text underlined.
Step 1: Open the Photoshop
First, open the photoshop and add a new layer to your screen
Step 2: Select the type tool
Get on your left sidebar tool and select the icon (T) of the type tool. Or, press ‘t’ on your keyboard to type the tool directly.
Step 3: Get your text on your screen
Now, drag the tool over the layer to have a text box. Place your text here or just type the text or sentence in which you want to underline.
To position the text properly, press ‘ V’ to enable the ‘move tool’ and then adjust the text.
Step 4: Adjust text
You’ll get several options in the top menu bar to adjust your text.
First, get your text front adjustable, and then you can bold or semi-bold your text. The next option shows the different text sizes.
Step 5: Choose a character panel
Go to the top of the screen and select the ‘Window’ section from the menu bar. Scroll into the drop-down menu and select the ‘Character’ option.
Step 6: Select underline Icon
After the character panel appears on the screen, select the underlined T icon. Your text is now underlined.
Tips: In the case of underlining specific words from a sentence, you need to highlight the text first. Double-click on your text to help highlight the text.
Tips for Effective Underlining
FAQs
How do I underline the text in Photoshop?
You can easily underline the text in photoshop by following these steps:
- Select the ‘type tool’ from the left sidebar tool.
- Drag it to create a textbox. Then, type the text and double-click to select and highlight the text.
- Go to the Window>Character
- Get underline icon (Capital T underline)
- Select the icon and then adjust the color, width, or shape from the Character panel.
How to adjust underline in Photoshop?
You can adjust the underline width or shape using the ‘Move tool.’ Press the ‘V’ shortcut to get the move tool. To adjust colors or appearance, use Fill and stroke from the ‘Properties panel’.
What is the underlining symbol?
In a character panel of Photoshop, you’ll see an underline icon. It’s generally capital T, in which an underline is present below the text.
Final Words
You’ve now learned how to underline text in Photoshop. It’s very easy to get your text more readable to your audience with perfect underlining. Be creative to add flavor to words! Also, make sure you don’t have to gorgeously present the text over thickness or bright colors. Shine in your thoughts and reflect them into words! And, Photoshop is here to help you out.
