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Create a Victorian type poster

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Create a Victorian type poster

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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm Nigel French, welcome to Type Tips. In this week's episode I'd like to create a Victorian style type poster. And here is what I've come up with. I'm using the type of the different regions of the Shipping Forecast. And if you're unfamiliar with the Shipping Forecast you can find out about that on its Wikipedia page. And it was from the Wikipedia page that I copied the text. And I copied the text into InDesign. This project is going to touch InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, and that's one of the points really. I want to show you how we can move between these applications and in each of the three applications I want to do something that really could only be done in that application. An A3, if you prefer, use the tabloid size page. And I've just pasted the type in there. Now the first thing I'm going to do, and the reason that I'm in InDesign, is apply some Paragraph Styles. While…

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