From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials

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Sizing type

Sizing type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Sizing type

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- [Instructor] Here are some techniques for sizing your type in Photoshop. I'll come and double-click on that type layer to select the type that's on it. I now see my character options on my Tool Options bar. I can choose a type size from this type scale. I can highlight the current size and type in a new size, or I can just highlight this field and press my up arrow or down arrow to change the size. Alternatively I can use this scrubby slider to the left, and if I drag on this to the left it gets smaller and to the right it gets bigger. Or perhaps I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts. I'm going to just take the focus away from this field by double-clicking back onto the type layer thumbnail and then use the keyboard shortcuts. Command + Shift + more than to increase the type by one point at a time or Command + Shift + less than to go in the other direction. If I want to go in five times that increment, I would also hold down the Option key or the Alt key. So that's Command + Shift +…

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