August 2014
Beginner
989 pages
34h 23m
English
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Formatting Text
Now that you’ve learned all about the different kinds of Photoshop text and how to create it, it’s time to dig in to how to format it. Photoshop lets you control text to within an inch of its life. Beyond the basics of font, size, and color, you can adjust the softness of the letters’ edges, the space between each letter, the space between lines of text, and so on.
The most commonly used settings live in the Options bar, while the more advanced typographic goodies are nestled inside the Type menu, as well as the Character and Paragraph panels. No matter where the settings live, if they control text, you’ll learn about them in the following pages. Read on!