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Creating a paragraph style

Creating a paragraph style - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a paragraph style

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- In this movie, we're going to create a caption below the tin woodman because as you can see, if I go ahead and press ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac to zoom out, he's got room for a caption beneath him. And then we're going to format that caption and finally, we're going to to save those formatting attributes as a paragraph style that we can then apply to future paragraphs as we'll see in the next movie. So the first thing we want to do here is find what's known as a pull quote, which is a quote from the text itself, which will help to explain this graphic. And so I'm going to press shift + pgDn in order to advance to the second artboard. And notice this paragraph right here that begins with, "So they oiled his leg "until he could move them freely." It's these next two lines that I want to grab, and so I'll go ahead and double click anywhere inside the text in order to switch to the Type tool and then I'll marquee everything after this semicolon right here. So everything from the…

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