From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Creating and scaling a line of type - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Creating and scaling a line of type
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create a single line of what's known as point text inside Photoshop, and I'll also demonstrate the wonders of working with vector-based type inside this program. So notice that I'm working inside a very low res image. I'm viewing it a 100% right now and this will allow me to demonstrate what happens to text when you increase the size of an image. Now let's say we want the text to descend into these clouds which is something you can uniquely do inside Photoshop that you can't pull off nearly as easily inside Illustrator, InDesign or any of the other Creative Cloud programs. So, the first thing I'm going to do is select the clouds and jump them to a new layer. And I'll do so using the quick selection tool, which you may need to choose from the magic wand tool flyout menu. And now I'll go ahead and make sure the auto enhance checkbox is turned on up here in the options bar and I'll drag across these clouds in order to select them like…
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Photoshop vector-based type1m 19s
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Creating and scaling a line of type7m 59s
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Formatting type from the options bar5m 55s
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Formatting type from the Character panel6m 42s
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Finding the perfect font7m 10s
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Type size and script fonts5m 29s
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Creating and editing paragraph text5m 9s
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Adjusting leading and paragraph spacing5m 50s
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Setting the antialiasing for very small text3m 47s
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Aligning one layer to another3m 24s
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Creating text along a circle5m 15s
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Finding a character with the Glyphs panel4m 41s
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Double-stroking a circle3m 37s
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Creating a distressed cancellation mark6m 29s
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