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Exploring headline (point) type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Exploring headline (point) type

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- [Instructor] Photoshop has a powerful text engine that makes adding type to documents quick and intuitive. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to add point text and then refine it using the options bar. To create our headline type, we can select the type tool. We can tap the T key or select it on the toolbar. There are a number of different type tools. The first two make re-editable type, the others make selections. I'm going to select the horizontal type tool and then right click in order to reset the tool. Now to set up the font options, we can use the options bar. We can select a font as well as a family. We can set the font size either using the scrubby slider or we can select from the presets or enter in a value. In this case, I'm going to set the type to 40 points. We can set the text to left, center, or right alignment. I'll choose center, and then select a color by clicking on the color swatch. We can select a color using the color picker or position the cursor over the image area and click with the eyedropper to select a color. Alright, when I click in the image, Photoshop is going to automatically add placeholder text. Now, if you don't want this, you can always choose the preferences or settings and then type, and you can disable the option to fill new type layer with placeholder text. For now, I'll leave it on and then click in my image. I'm going to type in "Salt Lake City," and if I want to reposition the text while I'm still editing it, I can move my cursor close to the text. I'll get the move tool icon, and then we can reposition it. If I want to scale the type, I can hold down the command key on the Mac or the control key on Windows and then start dragging any of the anchor points. I'll want to hold down the shift key in order to constrain the proportions. This is a better way to scale the type than, say, using free transform, because it actually changes the point size in the options bar and the contextual task bar. Now, to commit to the type, we can simply click away from the text. Photoshop has created a type layer in the layers panel, and it's named it the same as the text that we entered. Now, to center the type, I'm going to tap the V key to select the move tool, and I'll just use my smart guides. Now, all of the text that we create with this tool is re-editable, so with the type layer selected, any changes that I make are going to affect the entire line of text. Let's just zoom in a bit and then I'm going to reposition this on the right-hand side. I'll tap T to select the type layer, and from the options bar, when I select the font menu, and we position our cursor over any of the different fonts, we see a live type preview. At the top, we can see all of our recently used fonts and we can quickly filter our fonts. It's set to all classes by default, but if we only want to see our script fonts, for example, we can select that from the list. Alright, let's move that back to all classes. If I only want to see the Adobe fonts, we can click on that icon, and if I want to see more fonts from Adobe, we can click over here, and that will take us online, where we can choose from more Adobe fonts and download the free fonts from the Adobe Type Library. If there are fonts that you use again and again, be sure to click the star next to them. That will add them to your favorites, and now we can filter on favorites by clicking on the star icon. Once I have a typeface selected and I return to the menu, we can also filter based on similar fonts. So this filters by classification as well as similarity, and it's going to show the fonts that we have installed locally that are similar to the font that we have selected, and it's also going to show additional fonts that are available for download. So we can preview the fonts that are installed locally, but we can't preview the fonts that aren't installed locally. However, all we need to do is click on the download icon, and Photoshop will automatically download and install that font and select it for us. Alright, you can choose whatever typeface you want. I'm going to turn off the similar filter, and then choose Proxima Nova. I don't want thin, however, so I'll use the disclosure triangle and then select regular. If I want to just re-edit a portion of the text, say, for example, the word lake, I can click once to set down my insertion point and then I can double click in order to select the entire word. Here I'll click the color swatch, and you'll notice that Photoshop automatically hides the reverse out area that shows me what text I have selected, and that's just to make it easier for me to see when I choose another color. Alright, I'll choose a bright red here, just so we can see it, and you'll notice as soon as I apply that, it reverses it out again. If you ever want to cancel any edits, we can use the options bar and just click on the cancel icon. Alright, let's go ahead and choose file and save as. I'm going to append this with an underscore 01, save it to the Type Essentials folder as a layered Photoshop document. So there you go, a quick overview of headline type in Photoshop.

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