19. Type

Image

In This Chapter

Creating editable type

Selecting type

Recoloring type

Changing the font family and font style

Converting type

Changing the font size

Applying kerning and tracking

Adjusting the leading

Shifting type from the baseline

Inserting special characters

Applying paragraph settings

Formatting type with paragraph and character styles

Transforming the bounding box for paragraph type

Screening back type

Rasterizing a type layer

Putting type in a spot color channel

We’ve never heard the phrase “A word is worth a thousand pictures,” but in Photoshop, where you can do such artful things with type, the line between pictures and words ...

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