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Hi there Photoshop users. Today I’m going to share the secret to getting out of a common predicament.

Let’s say you’re working on a file and you hit the Tab key to hide your palettes. You then hit the T key to enter text mode, you draw your text box, and you start typing away.

Then you finish typing. Uh oh. How are you supposed to get out of text editing mode?? If you hit Tab, your palettes won’t reappear because Photoshop assumes you’re trying to add a Tab space within your text box. Hitting the Esc key doesn’t do anything. Hitting the Enter key of course won’t do anything as your cursor will just bump down to the next line inside your text box. And you can’t hit the V key to turn your cursor into your black arrow because . .. . you’ll just end up typing the letter v inside your text box. Looks like you’re stuck, eh?

So what can you do? Something that took me far, far longer to figure out than I’d like to admit. You simply hold down the Ctrl key and then hit Enter. That’s it. You’re out of text editing mode and free to do whatever you’d like once again.