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Vertical type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Vertical type

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- [Instructor] A few quick points about working with vertical type in Photoshop. We have a vertical type tool, but you can change the orientation of the type once it is on the canvas. Your vertical type is probably going to work best if you are working with a mono-spaced type face. And that's what I'm doing here, I'm using courier bold. And in a mono-spaced type face, each of the characters is going to be of similar, or the same width. Whereas if it were in a proportional space type face, the I, for example, is a lot narrower than the C. Also, it's going to work a lot better if you work with text in all caps. You can see that that doesn't really have the same sort of impact when we change it from all caps to upper and lowercase. And then the last point I'd like to make is that if you want to adjust the spacing between the characters, that would not be the leading in this case, but rather would be the tracking. So to reduce the space between those letters, I would go to negative…

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