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Adjusting baseline shift - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adjusting baseline shift
All right gang, I am still working inside Text inside custom path.psd. In this exercise, I am going to take this text on the path that I just created, and I'm going to adjust it down using a function known as Baseline Shift. So, here is the idea. I was telling you that the baseline is that imaginary horizontal line upon which all of your characters rest. So with the exception of the descenders, which are the tails at the bottom of the G and the P and so on, all the other characters ride exactly along that baseline. Now when you attach text to a path the way we have here, then the baseline now becomes the path. They are one, so the baseline is curving. Well, there is this function known as Baseline Shift that allows you to raise and lower any selected characters of type with respect to the baseline. So, if we assign a negative Baseline Shift value to our current text we'll be able to shift it down and away from the glove, and that's what I propose we do now. All right, switch to the…
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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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