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Point text vs. area text

Point text vs. area text - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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