Lecture 7 &Chapter 9 & 10: Text

          Firstly i learned  what is type and how to create type elements. Photoshop type is made with vectors, vector is composed of line & points. Type options can be set in the Options bar, they are orientation which can be use rotate your text, font family which you can select the type of text, font style which you can select a text style, font size which you can re-size your text, font color to set color, anti-aliasing to smoothing the striking edge of a text, justification, and warp setting to create warped text which will allow you to fit text with a special design problem.

       Secondly,i learned how to control the font attributes. Which include, kerning used to adjust space between characters/alphabet, tracking to adjust space between words, vertical & horizontal scale to re-set size, leading to adjust lines in paragraph, baseline shift to adjust a character up & down, and attributes, such as superscript, subscript, all caps & bold.

 

    Thirdly, i learned how to manage the type layers & paragraph type. When type layers are linked, they can be moved as one layer, type layers can be merged or combined into one layer, flattening or merging layers containing type will rasterize the type, and rasterized type is not editable. Then it is always a good idea to save a copy of the file in PSD format to preserve all data. A paragraph is a series of words created when you start typing and ends when you press the Return/Enter key, text can be copied from another application using the clipboard, text from the clipboard can be placed in a text box in Photoshop. text box is contained within a specified region.

              Finally, i learned how to used text as a clipping mask &  Apply special type effects. A type mask can be used to add a gradient fill to text, the type mask is a selection in the shape of type that can be filled. Layer styles can be applied to type layers, layer styles can add drop shadow or bevel & emboss effects.