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Creating and editing a text layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating and editing a text layer
In this exercise, we are going to create and format a new text layer. I'm working inside Base layers.psd. Now I don't need to see both of these images at the same time. Both the base image and the final version of the magazine cover. So I'm going to go up here to the Arrange Documents icon, and I'm going to choose Consolidate All or if you've loaded Deke keys you can press Ctrl+Shift+A, Command+Shift+A on the Mac. And then I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the model's shoulder right here, like so. I've already pressed the T key in order to get the Type tool. Now notice up here in the Options bar that we have a series of options that are associated with the Type tool. We've got this Font option followed by a Type Style, then we've got Size and Anti-alias, Alignment, Color, this is Text Warp and finally we've got this option right there. If you click on it, it will bring up the Character panel. If you click again it'll hide the Character panel, and the Character and Paragraph panels…
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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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