Typography and Film Poster Part 3 Text tool and Character Palette

3.3 Text tool and Character Palette

3.3.1 For characters Photoshop has text facility in it. The toolbar has the text tool option, with this text can be written or edited Refer to Figure3.23.

Figure3.23 Text tool

3.3.2 When typing of text is done on the canvas a seperate text layer is formed on which any effect cannot be applied Refer to figure 3.24.

figure 3.24 Text layer

3.3.3 The text attributes can be changed with the character palette Windows → Character Refer To Figure 3.24.

Figure 3.24 Character Palette

A- Text font

B- Text size

C- Text vertical scaling value

D- Shifts the selected character vertically

E- Options for BoldItalics, Caps, Superscripts, Subscripts, Underline, Strike

F- Text style regular, bold, italics etc.

G- Gap between the lines

H- Kerning, sets the gap between the lines

I- Text horizontal scaling value

J- Color of the text

3.3.5 For vertical typing press-hold Horizontal Type tool on toolbar and click vertical type tool. Refer to figure 3.26.

figure 3.26. Vertical Type tool

3.3.6 Horizontal type mask tool- Without rasterizing a type layer , you can create direct typing selection using this Horizontal Type Mask tool. You can find this tool under Horizontal Type Tool on the tolbar Refer to Figure 3.27.

Figure 3.27 Horizontal type

3.3.7 Vertical Type Mask Tool- Without restering a type layer, you can create direct typing selection using this vertical type mask tool. You can find this tool under Horizontal Type Tool on the toolbar.