Comments on: Tip – The secret Identity Plate Text Formatting Trick

By: Ququrumi San

Ququrumi San — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:40:42 +0000

Hi Matt! Thanks for all the tips and really appreciate what you have done here! greetings from Malaysia!

By: Niall

Niall — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:48:20 +0000

I’m having the same problem in Windows trying to get more than one line of text. The tip in the Kelby book “lightroom 3 for digital photographers” does indicateto use Alt-Enter twice to move down two lines but it does not work for me. Any alternatives out there to solve the problem? Otherwise us non-mac users are left with just 1 line of text!

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:05:51 +0000

Came across this forum as I was having problems with adding extra lines to the Identity Plate after following Scott’s book (found this book most helpful). I am brand new to digital photography, LR3 (which I adore for catalogue and develop) and PSCS5, I have Windows 7 and after reading various tips above I made a 3 line text plate in CS5, saved with png extension and then uploaded as graphic to LR3 identity plate. The only downside with this, is everytime I wish to change the title of a photo will have to make a new plate.
With Jochen tip I had the same problem of only one line appearing.
Thanks to everyone.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:21:03 +0000

Nope, in Windows this tip doesn’t work properly. The Ctrl-V only gives you the first line of text. Matt, have you tried this in Windows ? It seems a bunch of us are having this problem. Any ideas ? I wish I could understand Jochen’s post. He seems like he may have found a way, but the meaning of his steps are a little unclear.

By: Parkylondon

Parkylondon — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:23:09 +0000

Hi Jochen

Your tip seems to be the closest I’ve seen to actually sound plausible but I still cannot make it work. Can you detail the steps you go through for the less technically adept please?

By: Matt Kloskowski

Matt Kloskowski — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:19:05 +0000

Thanks

By: Jochen

Jochen — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:13:32 +0000

Hi Guys,
I’m working with LR3 on Win (XP & 7) the trick ist to paste the two or more lines of text to the plare using Ctrl. + V and replace the square with an UP+Return to get the next line!

Greetings from Germany
JK

By: Zulma Cardona

Zulma Cardona — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:05:08 +0000

Hi Matt,

I think you are great and thank you for all your help. I hope this can make up for the complainer.

By: E.B. West

E.B. West — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:05:54 +0000

It may be what I was told was right, it’s a Mac only feature. Sure would be nice to hear from someone who was sure. I posted on the Adobe forum and didn’t get anything there either.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:00:55 +0000

I found a reference for doing multi-line text on the Adobe site – the trick to getting line breaks/newlines is reported to be COMMAND-RETURN where you want the new line to appear, but that is Mac specific I guess.

My original attempt worked as I reported (for some reason) but I sure can’t repeat it on Windows 7 using copy from Word 2007…and I can’t figure out how to escape a newline (pardon my unixesze ala \n reference from print and echo statements …)…