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Adding character style overrides
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Adding character style overrides
- [Instructor] A character style ideally should provide an override to a paragraph style for fragments of text within the paragraph style. Let's have a look at how that works. First of all, so it's easier to see, I'm going to tap W on my keyboard just to hide everything at the moment. So we are in preview mode, but we can still work. I'm then going to tap Z on my keyboard to get the zoom tool and click and drag around this block just here. I'm then going to tap T to get the type tool and I'll select all of the paragraph texts there and we'll create a paragraph style for it. We didn't style that separately, so we need to do that right now. So I'll go to the paragraph styles here, new paragraph style, and I'm going to call that back copy like so just for the time being. It's going to apply to the selection. It will inherit everything that we've got in copying that across. So what happens then if we need to…
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Project overview1m 5s
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Document setup5m 28s
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Setting margins5m 15s
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Adding guides2m 49s
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Challenge: Layout guides2m 31s
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Solution: Layout guides5m 27s
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Choosing and pairing fonts5m 8s
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Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors4m 46s
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Splitting images for the covers3m 42s
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Creating tints for the cover flaps5m 40s
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Adding image content5m 23s
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Importing and organizing text5m 31s
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Styling the title block7m 30s
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Styling the cover quote6m 4s
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Optical margin alignment3m 38s
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Setting the back cover text6m 53s
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Adding character style overrides3m 45s
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Challenge: Set flap texts54s
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Solution: Set flap texts4m 32s
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Creating the spine content4m 27s
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Adding the publisher's assets5m 25s
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Exporting assets3m 14s
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Creating a print finish5m 54s
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