From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Using leading, kerning, and tracking - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Using leading, kerning, and tracking
- [Instructor] In the next few minutes, we going to take a look at the leading, kerning and tracking options in Photoshop. I'll tap the T key to select the type tool. And I want to add to the type layer that's already there. So I'll just click near the S and SeaS and tap the Return key. Then I'll type in "Looks can be deceiving." Now in order to select an entire line of text, well, if I just click that moves my text insertion point, if I double click it'll select the word, and if I triple click, it will select the entire line of text even though the text extends beyond the canvas area. Well, I could make my changes using the options bar, we can also use the properties panel and the properties panel has a lot more options. So to change the text size, I can click and drag left or right with these scrubby sliders, or I could choose a size from the list, or I could just enter in a size. Or with the entry field highlighted I…
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