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Working with text frames in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

Working with text frames in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Working with text frames in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. Welcome to Type Tips. In this episode, I'm going to show you how to put text inside a shape in InDesign, in Illustrator, and in Photoshop. Sounds easy, right? Well, it is, but there are some strange differences in the way the three applications behave and that's what I want to highlight. And also there are some potentially frustrating snags. Here I am in InDesign. I have a background rectangle which is locked and then on top of that, a circle, and I want to put text inside the circle. I'll choose my type tool. Notice the shape of my type cursor when it is not over a shape or in this case, when it's not over an unlocked shape. Notice how that changes when it moves over a shape, indicating that you are now about to put text inside the shape and that's exactly what will happen. When I click right there, I get my flashing cursor and I can go and enter type or I can fill with…

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