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Selecting alternate characters using the Glyph panel

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Selecting alternate characters using the Glyph panel

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- [Instructor] Photoshop has another panel that we haven't looked at that can help us to add alternate characters that are available in a font and that's the Glyphs panel. I'm going to tap the T key to select the Type tool and I've chosen Bickham Script Pro 3. It's not that other typefaces won't work, but I know this font has a number of alternate characters that we can experiment with. I'll set the font up to, maybe, 280 points and make it left align and then click in the left hand area of my image and type in Antarctica. In order to select a glyph, I can select a character on screen and then I can use the on-canvas glyph alternate. In this case just selecting one will change to that glyph, but sometimes those can get in the way. So if you want to, you can actually turn those off in the Preferences under Type. I personally think that it's easier to see the Glyphs panel, so let's select the A at the end of Antarctica…

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