in this video I want to show you a few
basics of text in Photoshop there are a
number of ways you can use text while
designing in Photoshop so let's grab the
text tool from the tool bar if you click
and hold on the text tool you can see
various types of text tools like
horizontal type tool vertical type tool
horizontal type mask tool and vertical
type mask tool but most commonly we will
use the horizontal type tool now just
click on the canvas
and see that in the layers panel a blank
text layer is created
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education to make a selection of text
just double click on the text layer look
here in the options bar for some options
to modify the text here you can change
the font styles of the selected text
there's a huge list of font styles to
choose from here you can give some
normal font effects such as bold italic
or regular by this option we can set
font size you can click and drag on this
icon to increase or decrease font size
here are some font adjustment options
click this icon to open the character
panel which contains all the settings
for text we can also get this panel in
the window menu in this panel we have
the same options we saw in the options
bar and many more options like kerning
tracking vertically scale horizontally
scale font color and many more options
to modify your text now make a selection
of text by double clicking on the text
layer and pressing ctrl + T to open show
transform you can drag and scale
texts non-destructively notice here the
font size of the text and then scale
down the text when you press ENTER you
can see the font size is also changed
you can scale up and down the text as
you would with an image but still not
lose any quality after scaling as you do
with an image because when we scale the
text it is not resampling the text in
fact it is resizing the text so it can
be scaled non-destructively now if you
want to change font style then select
the text and open this list of font
styles you can choose any of the font
styles from this list and if you want to
check all the font styles one by one
then just click on the font style name
and keep it selected then start pressing
up and down arrow keys to go through all
of the font styles one by one let's talk
about kerning and tracking kerning means
adding or subtracting space between two
specific selected characters tracking
means loosening or tightening a selected
block of text let me change the color of
this word so that you can see the
difference clearly while changing its
tracking value but first we will change
tracking for the entire line by clicking
and dragging this icon you can also set
tracking space between two individual
characters for that just click between
those two words and put your cursor
there and the shortcut to change the
tracking value is to hold the Alt key
and press arrow keys left and right to
increase or decrease the space you can
use the same shortcut when you want to
change spacing in an entire line we can
also scale our text horizontally and
vertically by changing the values in the
vertically scale and horizontally scale
option
so now let's talk about text on a path
let me draw a shape as a path so we can
put some text on it now look at the
cursor when it's on the canvas area
outside the path it looks like a normal
text tool cursor but when I keep it over
the path then it will change and that
changed cursor indicates that your text
will be sticking to this path now click
on that path and you will be able to
type your text following that path and
you can also determine the starting
point and the ending point of text on
the path so select the text then press
and hold the control key then put the
cursor at the start of the text you can
see the changed cursor now click there
and drag the cursor so you will be able
to see two different points a little
cross indicates that this is the
starting point of text and the little
dot symbol indicates that this is the
ending point of the text so you can't go
out of that limited area you can change
those points by holding the control key
then clicking and dragging them you
flip up and down the text around the
path by moving the cursor in and out of
the path area but keeping hold of the
ctrl key we can also do this on a simple
path drawn by the pen tool so let's
check it out grab the pen tool and draw
a simple path now take the text tool
click on the path and start typing and
you see here you have the same features
as we have seen previously and text over
the shape path now let's talk about
customizing font styles
sometimes the font style can't give you
exactly what you want so in these cases
you need to take some text and modify
that as per your requirement you can do
this by converting the text to path let
me type a word guru 99 then right-click
on the text layer in the text panel and
choose create work path it will convert
your text to a path that you can easily
modify switch off the text layer and you
will see it has generated a path around
the text and look here in the paths
panel a work path is created save at
first now if you want to modify the path
then just grab the pen tool and select
some control points which you want to
move and set them according to how you
see the design in your mind you have to
hold the ctrl key then click and drag
any control point the way you want you
can see how I've modified the font and
created a new design
if I think that I can work only with the
provided font style to get my output
then I will not be successful every time
sometimes we have to modify the text for
our needs
so these are some features about text
and in the next video tutorial we will
talk about filters
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