From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Type size and script fonts - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Type size and script fonts
- [Instructor] Alright, our new text is pretty tiny and frankly, it doesn't look all that different than the old text. I'll show you some tricks for modifying type size as well as working with script fonts here inside Photoshop. The first thing I'm going to do is select my text by double-clicking in the thumbnail for this new type layer. And I want you to notice that its layer name updated automatically as we changed the text. And again, if you decide to modify the layer name manually, that will not happen. At any rate, I'm going to double-click on the T here inside the Layers panel to highlight the text and automatically switch to the Type tool. And now I'm going to change the type size. You can do that by modifying the type size value, which you can do by clicking the down-pointing arrowhead and selecting a different size, you can enter your own value, you can scrub this T icon right there, so you've got a lot of different options that are available to you. You can even change the…
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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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