Adding and Modifying Text in Photoshop

1. Adding and Modifying Text in Photoshop

2. Frequent Typographic Offenses • Overusing decorative fonts and using too many fonts per design • Setting whole sentences in capital letters • Underlining text that isn’t a hyperlink • Centering large bodies of text

3. Frequent Typographic Offenses -2 • Misusing straight and smart (curly) quotes and apostrophes • Straight quotes are the two generic vertical quotation marks located near the return key: the straight single quote ( ' ) and the straight double quote ( " ). • Curly quotes are the quotation marks used in good typography. There are four curly quote characters: the opening single quote ( ‘ ), the closing single quote ( ’ ), the opening double quote ( “ ), and the closing double quote ( ” ). • "That's a 'magic' sock." WRONG • “That’s a ‘magic’ sock.” RIGHT

4. Frequent Typographic Offenses -3 • Forgetting to use the built-in Spell Checker • Just because it’s a graphics program does not mean that it it cannot handle text • Photoshop has built-in word processing capabilities as long as you keep the text separated into Text Layers • Always Spell check your document: • Edit- Check Spelling • This can be done on individual “stories” Or, you can spell check the entire document

5. Typos Are Embarrassing September 1, 2013 Notre Dame starts the season with a spelling problem Kyle Ringo The folks who ordered the promotional cups in Notre Dame Stadium for today's opener against Temple won't be winning any spelling bees this season. Yep, those cups are supposed to say Fighting Irish. Well, of course they are, but they say 'Fig Thing Irish' instead. Oops.

6. Type 101 • Typeface- shape or design of a collection of glyphs (a glyph is the actual graphical representation of a number, letter or punctuation mark, including decorative and pictorial characters/alphabets ) • Ex: Times • Font- the specific size, style, and weight(but people use the terms interchangeably, which is okay for the digital world) • Ex: Times 14-point bold • Font Family- a collection of various weights and widths of the same design • Ex: Times Bold, Times Bold Italic, Times. Italic or Regular

7. PostScript • Most graphic design pros consider this format the safest and most reliable for printing because it’s been around for years (for both Mac and Windows). • Each PostScript font consists of two files: one that contains the shapes that get displayed on screen (called the screen or bitmap file because monitors display bits or dots) along with font family and spacing info, and another that contains outline drawings of each glyph for the printer (commonly referred to as the printer file). • This format produces high-quality text when printed on PostScript devices like laser printers and professional printing presses. The downside is that the two files can get separated or lost, which may make the font unusable (though, these days, most computers ignore the screen file and use the printer file for everything, but you shouldn’t count on that).

8. TrueType • Developed jointly by Apple and Microsoft, TrueType is the most common font format, and it’s what you’ll find in both the Mac and Windows operating systems (though they’re likely different versions so they may not look the same). • Both the screen and outline information are stored in a single file, so they can’t be separated or lost. • Though these fonts rival the quality of PostScript, and their usage in the design community has increased, many professional printers still prefer PostScript out of habit. • TrueType fonts for Windows can be used on Macs, but not vice versa.

9. OpenType This format, created by Microsoft and Adobe, is the new standard. It is cross-platform as it uses a single font file for both the Mac and Windows computers. • Like TrueType, OpenTypefonts store the screen and outline information together. • They work well and look the same on both Macs and Windows computers, plus they can store more than 65,000 different glyphs in one font file. • This makes them ideal for decorative and pictorial languages like Asian and Middle-Eastern ones, and for other fancy typographic uses like ligatures and stylistic alternates. • OpenTypefont can be used on Mac and Windows machines. • As with most things, change takes time, so a lot of printers don’t yet support this format. But because it’s so versatile, someday OpenType will become a typographic standard.

10. Anti-aliasing Text • Anti-aliasing is when Photoshop slightly blurs the edges of letters so they don’t look jagged. • Photoshop blends the colors on type layers with colors on other layers, • Anti-aliased text will display better in CS6 than in previous versions of Photoshop • This improvement will be more noticeable in smaller text sizes (like 12 point or less) where the anti-aliasing blur makes up a bigger portion of each letter’s pixels • Dark text on a light background will now look thinner • Light text on a dark background will now look thicker

11. Alignment Tip • Use Guides and Rulers to line up headlines, text, images and captions on a grid • View- Fit On Screen • View- Rulers • Drag vertical or horizontal guides from the center of the ruler to create a formatting grid

12. Fun Text • Create type on a path • Create a shape with a pen or shape tool • Select the Horizontal Type tool • Move the Type tool over the path, click the path • Begin typing

13. Fun Text, cont. • Warped text- distort text to conform to a shape. • Choose Warp Text- Select Wave. Modify the options.