Adobe Photoshop Basics:

Type palettes

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Type Palettes

This is a quick summary of the options available in the character and paragraph palettes.

The Character Palette

Section 1: Font and Style
Section 2: Font Size, Kerning, Leading, Tracking
Section 3: Character Height, Character Width, Baseline, and Color.

The Character Palette Menu allows you to apply faux bold and faux italics to fonts that do not include these styles within the typeface. You cannot warp type that has Faux Bold formatting. When vertical type is selected the rotate command becomes available. The following additional styles are also offered: all caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, strikethrough, ligatures, and old style. Factional Widths varies the spacing between characters to make it more readable. In some instances—such as for small type to be displayed on-screen—you may get better results by disabling this option.

The Paragraph Palette

Section 1: Align and Justify
Align - Right, Center, Left
Justify - Last Line Left, Last Line Centered, Last Line Right
Full Justify
Section 2: Indentation - Left Margin, Right Margin, First Line
Section 3: Spacing Before and After Paragraph
Section 4: Enable/Disable Hyphenation

The Hyphenation Dialog Box

The Justification Dialog Box

 

 

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