From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Point text vs. area text - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Point text vs. area text
I've saved my progress as Kerned and tracked.psd. And you may recall that we set up 365 as Point Text, meaning that this is text that's aligned to a specific point. And if I go ahead and press the T key, in order to get my Type tool, and click inside of this text someplace, you'll see a baseline that's the horizontal line, which is ultimately an imaginary guideline, upon which the characters rest. And that line emanates from a single point. And when we're working with Flush left text, like this, then the point is on the far left side of the baseline. It would be in the center of the baseline with centered text, like so; Ctrl+Shift or Command+Shift+C for Centered. And it would be on the right side of the baseline if we were working with Flush right text, Ctrl+Shift or Command+Shift+R for Right, and Ctrl+Shift or Command+Shift+L for Left. And I'm just changing the alignment by pressing those keyboard shortcuts. Anyway, I am going to press the Escape key to abandon the Text Edit mode…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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