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Using leading, kerning, and tracking

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Using leading, kerning, and tracking

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- [Instructor] In the next few minutes, we're going to take a look at the letting, kerning, and tracking options in Photoshop. I'm going to tap the T key to select the type tool, because I want to add to this type layer. I'm going to click right to the right of the Y in city, then tap return in order to start another line of text, and I'm going to type in the crossroads of the west. All right, now we can see that this text is too large. In order to select all of the text on that line, I'm going to triple click within that line. That's going to select the text, even if it's beyond the canvas area. Now using the properties panel, there are a number of different ways we can change the values. If I want to increase or decrease the text size, We can click with these scrubby sliders. Moving it to the left will decrease or moving it to the right to increase. We can also use this dropdown list. If we want to select a specific…

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