From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Formatting type from the Character panel - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Formatting type from the Character panel
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll introduce you to a few formatting attributes that are available from the dedicated character panel, which allows you to adjust character-level formatting attributes, which affects selected characters or words of type. So, you can get to the character panel in a couple of ways. One is to go to the window menu and choose character, and the other, probably easier way, is to go ahead and select the type tool and then go up to this little panel icon up here in the options bar and click on it. And that will bring up the character panel. All right, now I'll go ahead and zoom into my text by control spacebar clicking, or command spacebar clicking on a Mac. And you want to do that before you select your text. And then, I'll go ahead and select the word love by double-clicking on it with the type tool. And incidentally, if you want to select multiple words of type, then go ahead and double-click, and then on the second click hold and drag like so. But in my…
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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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