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Type / Type Basics
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Photoshop's type tool are quite easy to use and frankly a big improvement over some old versions. This is the type tool, looks like a 'T' on our tools palette. Press and hold on it, and you can see that we actually have 4 different type tools to choose from. But I'm going to stick with the horizontal type tool for now. Once you choose that, notice that my cursor changes to be an I-beam cursor. And all I need to do to begin typing is click once in my document, and notice that Photoshop immediately creates a new type layer for me. So I can just begin to type next to my blinking cursor whatever I wish. While I'm still in type tool mode, I can see that I have my blinking cursor, the type tool works very much like a standard word processor. So if you are seeing your blinking cursor in type mode, I can use the arrow keys to go back somewhere or I can also double click on a particular word to select it. This is what selected type looks like: it reverses out the selection showing you the selected text. And with that selected, I could just type in a new word. If we want to take advantage of some of these options in the options palette, first going to select the text that I want to be affected here. So we have a pull down menu for whatever fonts are currently loaded on your computer system. And if that font has a style associated with it or several styles, we can choose that from the style palette here. And we can also determine what font size is going to be used from this pull down list of font size. You could also type in your own font size by selecting that number and just typing in a particular number. This list gives us several options for how we want our type to look. The default is smooth. However, if you are planning to work on a website, you might choose something such as sharp. Now the difference here is that smooth will create a very nice anti-aliased effect. I'll zoom-in to a curved letter here, go back to my type tool and select that word, and change the sharpness of this font. And you can see the furthest, the opposite of smooth is none, and it will create a completely non anti-aliased type look. Which might be ok on a website, but doesn't look so great in print. So generally, you want to choose smooth. We have some options for aligning our text, and this will become more apparent when we use paragraph text. We have the option for left align, center or flush right. And we can also choose what color we want our type by clicking on the color swatch here. I want to go back to my type tool. And if we wanted to select all our type, you can do that quite easily by double clicking on the 'T' thumbnail in the layers palette. And Photoshop will select all of the text on this particular type layer. When you are in type mode, notice that we have to commit to this text by clicking on the check box here, or we could simply hit the enter key to commit to that text, and we can get back to editing other layers.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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