From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials

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Setting type in Photoshop

Setting type in Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial

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Setting type in Photoshop

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- [Narrator] Before we get going with the course, I'd just like to make a few introductory statements about working with type in Photoshop. Because it may sound a bit of an oxymoron type in Photoshop. After all, it's not called Typeshop, the clue is in the name. Photoshop is obviously dedicated to working with images and image editing. But that said, it does today have some very sophisticated type tools. The first reason you might want to set your type in Photoshop is that it is convenient. If Photoshop is what you have, it's the application that you're working in, it's what you're familiar with, then there's no reason why you can't work with type in Photoshop. Secondly, Photoshop creates vector type. It's smooth, it's crisp, it's scalable. It has very sophisticated type tools. Similar to those that you will find in InDesign and in Illustrator. But that said, Photoshop is not suited for long passages of text. Anything that involved multiple pages or even multiple paragraphs, you're in…

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