Adobe Photoshop Lesson 9&10

Objectives

• Create type elements
• Control the font attributes
• Manage the type layers
• Create paragraphs type
• Warping the type
• Using text a clipping mask
• Apply special type effects

Type elements

• Photoshop Type is made with vectors
• Vectors are composed of lines and points

Using the Type Tools

• Type options can be set in the Options bar
• Point text is created by clicking on the image and typing (Click & Type)
• A text box is created by clicking and dragging to add a text box to the image (Click & Drag)
• To add type, click on the image with the type tool

1. Type at the insertion point
2. A new type layer is created

Controlling Type Attributes

• Type attributes are controlled in the Character palette
• Includes:

1. Kerning, space between two or more letters
2. Tracking, overall letterspacing
3. Leading, overall spacing between lines
4. Vertical/Horizontal Scale
5. Baseline Shift
6. Attributes (SuperScript, SubScript, All Caps, Bold, etc)

Type Layers

• When they are linked, they will be moved as one layer
• They can be merged into one
• Merging or Flattening layers which contains type will rasterize the type
• Rasterized type is not editable
• Recommended to save a copy of the file in PSD format to preserve all data

Paragraph Type

• A series of words created and ends after the user press Enter key
• Can be copied from other source using the clip board
• Can be placed in a text box in Photoshop

Distorting Type

• Warp text dialog box containes 15 options for creating special text effects
• Warping text allows you to fit text to specific design problems

Using Text as a Clipping Mask

• Type mask can be used to add a gradient fill to text
• Selection in the shape of type that can be filled is called type mask

Applying a style to Type

• Can be applied to type layers
• Can add drop shadow and bevel & emboss effects

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Chapter 1: http://sthaboutmultimedia.blogspot.com/p/adobe-photoshop-lesson-1-objectives-of.html

Chapter 2: http://sthaboutmultimedia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Chapter 3: http://sthaboutmultimedia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_6.html

Chapter 4&5: http://sthaboutmultimedia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_26.html

Chapter 6&7: http://sthaboutmultimedia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_42.html