Lynda – Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials (Updated: 5/10/2018)

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2018-05-10

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Lynda – Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials (Updated: 5/10/2018)

Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials – video tutorial by Lynda (Updated: May 2018)

Learn the fundamentals of working with type in Adobe Photoshop. In this course, instructor Nigel French distinguishes when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop unique for certain type treatments. He demonstrates essential techniques, such as entering and editing text; interacting with type layers; and adjusting the color, transparency, and character formatting of type. Plus, he discusses some evolving technologies in type, including the new frontier of color fonts.

Topics include:
The pros and cons of setting type in Photoshop
Choosing fonts
Sizing type
Entering glyphs
Selecting and formatting multiple type layers
Creating, applying, and editing paragraph styles
OpenType features
Aligning elements as a group
Masking multiple type layers
Creating warped text
Variable type and color fonts

MP4 1280x720 | 1h 48m | ENG | Project Files | 301 MB

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