Chapter 20. Typography and Page Layout in Photoshop
In this chapter, you'll learn
How to size, merge, lay out, and align text to create a sign
How to use the Paragraph palette
How to lay out and design documents using Photoshop type
The basics of typography, typefaces, and type design
Best practices for using type in Photoshop
Photoshop type tools are an exciting aspect of the world of typography in general. In this chapter, we examine both type and Photoshop's capabilities for using type.
Photoshop now has a Type tool that is equivalent in power to the Type tool in an illustration program (such as Adobe Illustrator). We also have at our finger-“taps” a Free Transform tool, with which we can rotate and stretch type that remains editable, and a spell ...
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