Dictate in any app · Design
Photoshop files get handed over, and layer names are the only documentation they carry. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Photoshop accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Photoshop's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. Text layers and notes are typed.
A PSD with sixty layers called 'Layer 12 copy 3' is a file only its creator can work with. Naming is documentation, and it is skipped because it interrupts the actual work.
In practice people use it for: Text layer content, layer comments and notes, file handover documentation, and client feedback replies.
There is no Photoshop extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
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Click first. Typally types into Photoshop wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Almost every key in Photoshop is a tool shortcut. Dictating without a text field focused will switch tools rather than type.
Typally types into text layers when the type tool is active and the cursor is in the text, and into your handover notes and client emails the rest of the time. Be careful: with no text field focused, nearly every key in Photoshop is a tool shortcut, so dictated words switch tools rather than typing.
A designer handing off a campaign file records five spoken sentences about how the layers are organised and which groups are client-editable. The agency picking it up stops calling with questions.
Dictate the handover note explaining how a file is structured. Five spoken sentences save the next designer an hour of clicking through groups.
Almost every key in Photoshop is a tool shortcut. Dictating without a text field focused will switch tools rather than type.
Yes, once the type tool is active and the cursor is in the text. Otherwise your words become tool shortcuts.
For the writing around it — handover notes, feedback, copy — rather than the design itself.
Draft it elsewhere by voice and paste it in. Photoshop is a poor text editor.
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