Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials

Explore the fundamental concepts and techniques for working with type in Photoshop.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Getting Set Up

• Setting type in Photoshop
• Missing fonts
• Create workspace

2. Choosing and Entering Text in Photoshop

• Type anatomy
• Entering, selecting, and moving type
• Choosing fonts
• Point type and paragraph type
• Returns and breaks
• Sizing type
• Point size and resolution
• Vertical type
• Rasterizing type

3. Working with Text

• Working with dummy text and copy and pasting
• Find and replace
• Spell-checking
• Text and anti-aliasing
• The Glyphs panel
• Match Font
• Filtering type layers

4. Formatting Text in Photoshop

• Adding color to your type
• Spacing type: Leading, kerning, and tracking
• OpenType features
• Shaping paragraphs
• Alignment options
• Hanging punctuation and bullets
• Aligning as a group
• Distributing type layers
• Paragraph styles and character styles

5. Simple Photoshop Type Treatments

• Type and texture
• Type and transparency
• Masking type
• Applying a gradient
• Type and layer effects
• Setting type on a path
• Create warped text

6. Evolving Technologies in Type

• Variable type
• Color fonts

Conclusion

• Goodbye