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Working with dummy text and copy and pasting

Working with dummy text and copy and pasting - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with dummy text and copy and pasting

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- [Instructor] Let's say you're working on a piece that involves text, and the text is not yet complete. You don't want that to hold you up, so in the interim you can work with dummy text. I'll come to my layers panel, make sure that I am at the top of the layer stack, press T to access my Type tool, click and drag to define a type area. Then come to the Type menu, and choose Paste Lorem Ipsum. As a precautionary measure, you might first want to reset your character panel and reset your paragraph panel, because it will remember the last settings used. I'm now going to switch to my Move tool and come to my Character panel and change the font. I'll be using Adobe Caslon Pro regular. The size that I want in this case is 28 pixels. The other thing that I want to do is break the text into paragraphs. I'll come to my Type tool and just add some returns to break it into a few paragraphs. Then I will differentiate these paragraphs using a first-line indent. So back to select my Move tool…

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