Photoshop Question

I want to create a text layer and have say 10px of space of canvas on each side of the text, i align the text all the way to the left and the add 10px of space, is fine for one side, but what about the other side, how much do i know to take of to have exactly 10px of canvas on each side of the text.

thank you for your time

Did you try making the canvas 20px wider than the text and centering the text?

For Photoshop CS

Activate Rulers with View > Rulers

Set the Rulers units to "pixels" in Edit > Preferences > Units & Rulers

Zoom in on the right side of your text, and drag a guide line to the rightmost pixel of the text.  Look at which pixel number it is on the ruler, and add 10 to find the position where the image should be cropped.

Crop image with Image > Canvas Size

That\'s probably the dumb way to do it.  As usual with photoshop there are usually 5 different ways to do anything.

I finally used my head and did that ealier. I noticed text task are more difficult than others in Photoshop CS. Maybe text will be paid some attention in a later release, dowloaded CS2 didn\'t see a huge difference. I will have to take a look at the claimed improvements.

Thanks guys