Subtitles of the Movie

In this movie, we're going to deal with the last few items of Character Level formatting on the Control Panel up here. I'm actually going to skip over Character Styles and Language and leave those for a later movie, but we're going to deal with Vertical and Horizontal Scale as well as Skew and Baseline Shift. So, let me just select this text here and we're going to come up here and we'll look at Vertical Scale. I can take it up to 175 like that and there it creates this kind of nice effect, like that. I'll reset it back to 100 percent and come over here and here we can do the same thing, maybe set this to 150. Now if you set it too high, like 200, like that, it'll go off the frame so you might have to resize the frame, but I don't want to do that so I'm just going to take it back to 125 like that. As with all these you can just click in there and then use your keyboard keys. There I'm stretching it one percent at a time. Hold down the Shift key and there we go 10 percent at a time like that. Up-Down Arrow keys and, of course, it works the same over here like that. So, we can also do this visually without going up here and let me just reset this to zero for the purposes of it, back to where we started and I'll just make this a tad smaller. If you hold down the Ctrl or Cmd key and then go to one of your handles, corner handles are usually better for this and press down, start dragging, then you can just do it visually, like this. Make it as small as you want and actually go upside down as well and then create a nice headline like that. The important thing to remember with this is you've got to hold down the Ctrl or the Cmd key first before you go to the corner. If you try to do it afterwards it doesn't work. Ctrl or Cmd and then start moving around like that to create your heading. I'll move it up and we'll take a look at the next one here. Here we can change the Skew. I can just move it up like this or down like this and that skews it. Again, I can click here, hold down the Shift, move the Up Arrow and I'll go a higher degree each time. Now let me reset this to zero. In fact, as a matter of fact, I'll just reset everything here. Reset this one back to 100 percent, oh, the font sizes just got a lot bigger here, so I'll set it back to 36 points. There we go. Now if I'm dealing with a font like this, Caslon, it's got lots of options. It's got Regular, Italic, Semi-Bold, Semi-Bold Italic, et cetera. However, some fonts, as we've mentioned before, just don't have those particular options, so if I come down and choose one here, let's see if I can choose one, maybe like Cracked. There's a good one there. Now you can see I can select this but I can't make it Italic because it doesn't have an Italic Weight, so I can make a faux or false italic by coming up here and then changing it there. So, if somebody wants a font like this turned into italic this is the way to do it there. OK, the next option here is the Baseline Shift. Now I'm going to come down into our body of text and I'll zoom in on it so that we can see what happens. If I select this text we can move it off the Baseline. Now, if I bring a Ruler out here and just put it along here, this is the line that all the text sits on, that is your Baseline. So we can mov it off this simply by coming up here like this or going down and, again, we can click here and just use the Arrow keys to go 1 point at a time or the Shift key if we want to move it up like that. Now, one thing to remember, if you do change the Baseline Shift in something like this and want to come along and select it up here you're not going to be able to select it at the high point. Let me actually just go into Preview Mode where this'll become clear. I try to select up here and I just create another text frame. I'll undo that. What you need to do if you're selecting text where the Baseline has shifted is come down to where the baseline should be, which is down here where my cursor is, press and drag across and select it and then type in zero like that. Let me zoom out again here and zoom back in on the headline. Now, a new feature with InDesign CS5 is they've added the ability to add color from the Control Panel - really nice feature. You wonder how we lived without it before. Let me reset this to zero like this. You can select the text, come over here and whatever swatches you have built in you can change the color like that. You can also change the Stroke, come along here, add a black Stroke to it, like that. Now we deal with color a little bit later and creating different Color Swatches and adding Strokes, et cetera, so I'm not going to go into the details of how to get your Swatches up here now. You can check out the movies on Color, but at least now we can access color directly from the Control Panel which is absolutely great.