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Exploring faux styling options

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Exploring faux styling options

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By now you know how to make very exciting animated titles, but I thought I'd share with you a few small tips that go a very long way to making your titles look more professional. The first thing we will talk about are the faux styling options, such as Faux Bold and Faux Italic, as well as Small Caps, X Height, and Superscripts. I have just created a few sample compositions. And by the way, you don't need any exercise files for this section, but if you want to follow along, you can always create your own samples. With some of the examples I will be showing, it will make a difference whether or not you have a Sans Serif font-- I'm using Helvetica here--or whether you're using a Serif font. And I'll be using Baskerville. But if the font you are using has serifs like this, you might find things like quotes will look a little different. The idea behind the Faux Bold option is that it makes any font looks thicker. Of course there is no reason to use Faux Bold with Baskerville, because it…

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