There are certainly tools that Photoshop could provide but currently doesn’t that would be helpful for this kind of work. Then again, maybe the problem is that

There are certainly tools that Photoshop could provide but currently doesn’t that would be helpful for this kind of work. Then again, maybe the problem is that many of us default to Photoshop because it’s familiar, when Fireworks might be a better tool for the job; I know I’m guilty of that. I think you’ve inadvertently hit on another advantage of using a graphics package to create buttons, though: you can optically align the button text so it appears centred and evenly spaced with a quick nudge, where a purely mechanical placement might be mathematically correct but look slightly off to the human eye.