Post Description

For this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French explains the fundamentals of working with type in Photoshop, distinguishing when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop unique for certain type treatments. This course demonstrates essential techniques, such as entering and editing text; interacting with type layers; and adjusting the color, transparency, character and paragraph formatting of type. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:

    The pros and cons of setting type in Photoshop
    Setting type preferences
    Choosing fonts
    Sizing type
    Entering glyphs and special characters
    Tracking and kerning type
    Using Baseline Shift
    Working with OpenType fonts
    Justifying and aligning paragraphs
    Masking type with clipping masks
    Warping type
    Converting type to shape layers