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Along with the Adobe Color Picker, Adobe is also standardizing the way text works in all of its applications. And also along with the color picker this is a welcomed edition. Lets see how this works by selecting the type tool. I'm here in Photoshop by the way. But again this works very similarly to Illustrator and practically any other Adobe application out there. As is usually the case because InDesign is more geared toward advanced typography, the typography tools that we find there are a little bit more sophisticated. We'll see that when we get there. So with the type tool selected, I'm just going to click and drag and make a text box here. I'm going to reduce the size of my font - more than that actually. Looks good. Alright, going to hit Enter on the numeric key pad to except this. And the reason I hit Enter on the numeric keypad is because if I hit Enter or Return on a Mac keyboard it's going to just bump me down a line. So if we want to except our text we need to hit Enter there on the numeric keypad. So with our text created lets go adjust it by using the character and paragraph pallets. And again, it's these character and paragraph pallets that are pretty standard across the board now. Now as with most pallets we can go to the Window menu at the top and get access to the character pallet or the paragraph pallet. However, often times in Adobe programs when your using text you'll see this little icon which is a really quick access to the character and paragraph pallets. Click that. There we go. Ok now that we are here in the character pallet we can use this area to change the font size. We could use this dropdown to change the actual font itself. This dropdown changes the style of font, whether it's bold, italics, that type of thing. This dropdown is currently grayed out because for brush script standard, this font, I only have one setting and that is medium. Alright, pretty standard so far. Lets get into the good stuff. This feature right here, this is called Leading. It is not called Leading. This comes from an old world typography technique and what would happen is when they would create the stamps to stamp out their typography to make a book or what have you. In order to space out the lines of text, it would put pieces of lead in between the stamps. So that term of Leading is still used today to suggest the same thing, putting space in between the lines of text. Now I can go to this dropdown here and select a random number or and this is for Photoshop only currently, I could go to the icon and I get this little finger with the double sided arrow. And I could just click and scrub back and forth. There we go. We could also set the tracking which basically is the space between letters. I could also click in between two characters and adjust the kerning. Now kerning essentially is the space between two characters only. It's a little bit more sophisticated than that but for the time being that's good enough. So I could adjust this by clicking and scrubbing as before to bring these letters closer together or farther apart, what have you. I'm going to hit Enter on the numeric keypad to accept that. We could also scale the text up or sideways, non-uniformly. We could also adjust the color of our text by clicking here. Getting the Adobe Color Picker - could do something different, maybe a pinkish color. Ok. Notice it automatically updates here. We could also adjust the Baseline Shift. The Baseline is the imaginary line that the text actually sits on. And so if I select the letter and adjust the baseline, you'll see that the character goes up or down. Take this back to 0 for right now. I'm going to show you a better way to do that in just a second. Now there are a few other styles down here that are pretty cool. I'm going to hit Enter on the numeric keypad to cancel out of those transformations. By the way as I get back into text/edit mode you'll see two little signs pop up here. These are very important. This one means cancel the current edits. This one says accept the current edits. So this checkmark here is essentially the same as hitting Enter on the numeric keypad. The keyword shortcut for this button is the Escape key. So if I hit Escape right now it will cancel all changes. Be aware that when you see those two little signs you won't be able to do much in the program until you either accept or reject the changes that you have made. You see those a lot when your in a transform mode. If your doing free transform for example, and your scaling something or rotating something, you will not be able to go add filter or do any one of a number of things if those icons are still there. now again we have some basic styles down here. We have a fake bold. We have a fake italics. We have all caps, which puts every letter into capitol letters. And to see this a little bit better, I'm going to select a better font. Courier will work. So as you can see, we take this off, lower case with a capitol letter here. Hit it. We have all caps. Now this is small caps. This is a really great one. I love the way this looks. As you select small caps it makes every letter a capitol letter but the ones that you've capitalized it makes bigger than the others. And it's not with these settings that we see a really big problem in our kerning here. So in a more perfect world with more perfect time we would click right there and adjust the kerning to fix this huge gap.