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Type Tool Presets

one of the things that the messages there is that, like anything in photo shop, the typesetting has a long memory. But it's particularly frustrating if you forget and you're using really big type on your type small type and you hit a character turn, you say, Where did the rest of my type go on its way down to the bottom somewhere Because you're letting is still way too big. So one of things that weaken do with a lot of things in photo shop. And we talked just briefly about this yesterday is making presets. We made brush presets, but you can also make tool presets. So, for example, if this particular look of type is something that I'm gonna use on an ongoing basis for the next hour for the next day for the next month or longer, and I want to always look the same and never have to worry about saying OK, what was the font size and what was the leading? I wanna have that sort of built in and ready to use. So when we're looking at the type tool appear in the top corner, we see that letter t...

There's a little pull down menu beside that and these air talk called type tool presets. And these apply for all tools. But for the type two was particularly useful, so I already have a bunch of them. But all I would do is make sure that this type players the actively. I don't have to select the type I need to make sure it's the active one, and I click this little button right here, which is a dough before new. So make a new in this case tool preset. So being very helpful, it says, suggests we call it horizontal type tool one, which is, of course, a really practical name that would help you for No, not at all. So I'm gonna call it something that makes sense to me, and it's up to you to decide how you name your type tool presets. I generally use a description that's gonna help me remember like hell Medica e. Then my typing is really bad. It's morning 10 and I usually do something like this. 10. This is the way used to do it in the old days of typography. When you see that, that's like saying 10 point over a leading of 12. So 10 12 white. Something like that. So now that's built into Photoshopped. So the next time I need to add some type like this, the only trick is before you start adding any type, you have to click on this preset first. So just as a demonstration, if I click on some other type, tool preset looked at my options bar. Now it's saying format a medium 85. But nothing has changed because it's not to change. Existing type is to say, the next time I enter type, make it look like this. So if you're used to paragraph styles and programs that have paragraph styles, this is not paragraph styles. This is a preset that lets you say before I start typing, make sure it looks the way I want. Photo shop does have, depending on your version, character styles and paragraph styles, which weaken, maybe talk about. But this to me is a much more practical way because I want to make sure that I'm creating this preset to make my life simpler. So when I go to my type two and pull down this menu, I have a bunch of type tool presets that I've created for different purposes. Now, as I mentioned, how you name the preset is up to you, you might find it makes better sense to call it a senior high school name or something. You know what it's used for as opposed to a description of the typeface. So that's that parts up to you. The key thing is, this is a list, and it's a photo shop preset, meaning. If I start a brand new document, the's presets will be available for any document that I'm using, not just this particular one I'm using right now. And that's part of the reason I use type styles. Maura's because excuse me, the tool presets, I should say, because I know, no matter what document I'm using those air already there paragraph, styles, air have some other interesting possibilities as well. But to me, this is an a simpler way to do it. Okay, Um okay, so let's talk about another couple things here every so often. If you're doing something, has a lot of type on it. Like in this case, I want to add one more line of type right underneath the part that says the total. But if I take my type tool and try and click right in here, the chances are it thinks I'm trying to edit that existing type. So you have two options. The hard way is to click somewhere else and then dragon into position. The simpler way is the little trick is if you hold down the shift key when you click with the type tool you can position anywhere and it knows you want a new piece of type instead of editing an existing one. So I got I like to do that because that way I know I'm already kind of in the right ballpark because I wanna look at sizing. So just put something in here. I make it much smaller and just make a little different. Just so we have something, I'm gonna position it on the side here. And ideally, what I'd like to do Let's hide this other one for momentarily is I'd like the width of this type toe match, this one. So instead of me selecting the type and then moving sliders around or something and try and figure out what point size is that one of the huge benefits of working with type because of his vector is we can free transform things up because it won't lose any quality. So in a case like this, the simplest thing to do is make sure the type is not selected. Commander Control tea for free transform. Hold down the shift key. And now I just drag it so that it matches up with wit that I want. And it works out the math and says, Well, for that toe work your point sizes now 35.3. Now, if I decided that I wanted to go another direction, I could also do it this way and make it a smaller type face and then use that option. All right, arrow. This I want to spread out so that it's kind of the same with like that. But the key thing to remember is that the rule that you hear people like me sale time is don't free transform things larger. That needs to in parenthesis, say, other than type, because type you can, because it's fine. So here's a little member I For those of you that were with us yesterday, I talked about at some point talking about I think it was always Adobe. All share files are technically PDF files of own year. That cocktail party. So here's the next cocktail party thing you can throw out there and that is, Did you know that they're in Photoshopped? There's one keyboard shortcut that does two different things, depending on the situation. What? That's crazy. So here's how it works. If you have text selected and you press commander Control T, which is usually free transform, it pops up the character dialling box. In that case, it's like Tiefer type once I'm finished. If I commit the type and press command control T, then it's the free transform tool. So it does. With type, it does two different things. One is a shortcut to open up the character dialog box. Let you change all the different type styles or type settings for this particular type, and the other is to actually transform. Now what you could also do if you wanted to have several lines of text that were different sizes. But you want to be the same with If you show the rulers Commander control are you can then drag guides off to the side and then use those as a guide to say, Okay, if I want all this type to match up, this one isn't matching very well because it's italics. I'm just gonna go thin, I think would be better that we go. Okay, so let's readjust. So how do you readjust a guy that's already putting put on there? While the move tool is a very smart tool because the move tools kind of our layer moving tool. But if it sees a guide, it suddenly can you see how the cursor is changing there. Now it's saying, Oh, so you want me to move the guide? So now I can position my move tool is that miss a little bit there on top of the guide, and I could move it. So now I could look at this type player. It's OK. Do I want to free transform that one? And the decision you have to make is visually. Would it look better to be matching up with the left hand edge of the tea or kind of lining up with this part of the tea? And the answer is that that's your choice. Depends a lot on the type that you're working with. So these kind of options give us sort of the ability to say I want my type just toe look more interesting and the recurring theme and keep mentioning it because it still comes back and bites me every so often, I forget that I, as a habit, often want to say if I've done some really wonky type that's like, really spread out in tiny and with lots of letting in it, that I want to go into my character panel and Jews reset, Um, character. That's gonna put everything back. That's let me start again. Make sure you don't have your type selected. And then when she was reset character, it puts the SEC characters that is back to kind of courting, called normal instead of ending up with 10 point type with 80 point letting, it would go back to kind of default settings that are more normal. But again, make sure you don't have your type player active, or else it will actually change. That's setting with at work in that text box that you have the leading. If you want to reset it, then it would put it all back to normal. Um, probably But I think that it would at least put it smaller so you could see it. And then you could adjust according So yeah, because the default is usually that 120%. So it's more in the at least in the ballpark you want, so you really would have to make that adjustment. Then you can just hit, reset, get yourself in a ballpark. So, for example, here, once I've done this, if I go to this type and take a look, this is where one of things to kind of get used to working with type a little more that you can see what's happening with this. So this is the tracking, so it's saying 280. So that's the number that it did when I use the shortcut to, say, Spread out the spacing trauma type. That's what it what it did there. Okay, so the other thing we can do is take things of one little step further, and that's do some interesting things with type I showed you before. How you could make a type box that looks like this. What if you want the type that kind of in effect, wrap around this ball. And technically, Photoshopped doesn't have a function that says wraparound type. But you can tell it to, because any shape you can create the type can follow that shape. So if I took on Oval, do it down here with the shape tools, if I took one of these ones like the Ellipse Tool and changed it to path and I went like this. Now I can put type in there and will be type inside a circle, so that's that's just sort of as an aside, you can do that. But what we want to do is rid of that and take a couple of steps to try and get this still look the way that I want. So I'm gonna take first of all, my marquee selection tools say this is the initial shape that I want and then I want to go around the ball here, so I'm gonna try a couple different options. First of all, let's try the quick selection tool because that might work whenever you have a selection. If you want to take away from existing selection, hold down Option or Ault by nature of the quick selection tool would try to add to the selection, but I wanna take away this part where the ball is. So if I go through here, I've got a pretty giant size quick selection tool. Looks like it's gonna do a decent job, except it's struggling a little bit with the black part of the basketball stripe. But overall, it's not bad. Yesterday we talked about quick mask. This is one of the areas where I would do that top Q and take a look at and see. Does that look? It actually looks pretty decent to me for the shape of it, because I wanted to follow the rough shape of the ball. If there's a little tiny bump here and there, that's not a horrible thing. But let me just show you another option, just in case I'm gonna save this selection so I could come back to it in a second. But just in case that didn't work, then this would be another option that we could do is make our selection press Q for quick mascot this point and then take our elliptical marquee tool and try and make a big selection this way and used in this case I won't use free transform cause I'm trying to transform the selection. I was gonna let me try and find a place where I can position this doesn't melt a little bit, so I can basically follow. Hopefully that pretty close to the shape of the ball, something like that. Now the trick is here. I'm already in quick mass motel. I can't say removed from the selection because it's in quick mass mode. Now, the way quick mass mode works is whenever you're seeing that red overlay, if we think about a mask that's black on a mask, whereas the other part is white. So if I were to show you what quick mass looks like, you can see this is it here? It just looks like a big rectangle of white with black. So given that in this case, if I filled this selection with black, it would look like that. So then I end up having a quick mask, and now I have the selection the way that I want. So it's always good to have a couple of different means to an end because depending on what it is you're trying to select, one way might be better than another. In this case, they both kind of ended up looking the same way. Now, before I convert this so I can fill type in there, I don't want it coming right up against that basketball. I want a bit of space. That's what I need to do is take this selection and modify it. So in effect it goes away from the ball. So I just moved it away. The shape wouldn't wouldn't match anymore, wouldn't look is good. I'll just show you if I drag it away, it looks OK, but look down the bottom seed, just not quite matching. So instead, we have all these options and Photoshopped to modify a selection. One of them is to contract it to make it smaller, saying the same contracted by, say, 12 pixels. And I can see it just goes a little tighter. I get might wanna go a little more than that. I think actually I like this selection better. So let's do that Modify contract. Let's do like click OK, and now in order to use this, I have to convert into a path because if the type tool recognizes the path that doesn't recognize the selection. So I need to go in here and choose a command called Make Work Path. So just so you know, this dialog box usually looks like this when it comes up, says make work, path and tolerance two pixels and one of things that questions I get asked a lot in photo shop is when you see something like that, how do you know what kind of range of numbers like? Is it from 1 to 100? Is it from 0 to 10? Because some dialogue boxes air prompting you to add a number. But you really don't know what frame of reference to use. So one of the tricks that someone mentioned to me many years ago I can remember even who said this? I thought it was a brilliant idea in any dialogue box. This is not just Photoshopped is anywhere where you're in and it's asking you to type in some value. And you really have no idea what range type the lowest number you can, which would be zero and click OK, is gonna tell you. Oh, look, the ranges from 0.5 to 10. So it's just told me now this is the range of numbers. Still doesn't necessarily identify what that range means, but I'll tell you what that is. But this is a good little trick. If you're ever trying to do something in a dialogue box, and you're really just not sure what range you have to deal with, you can also do the same on the upper end. Put it like 10, which you know is a really high number and come back and say the maxim number is X. So the way tolerance works is lower the number, the more accurately it follows. The path or the selection turns it into a path, so in this case, I want it to be generally I always put 0.5, which is the lowest number because it makes it very accurate, and I click OK, then I take my type tool. Photoshopped doesn't have different type tools. Some programs, like Illustrator, has the regular type tool. The type along a path tool, the type inside a path tool photo softest has one type tool, but it's a really smart one. So over here you can see my cursor looks like the regular type tool. If I go inside this path that I've created as a circle around. It means now it's type inside a path. So if I click on it and let's just do that paced Laura Epsom and let's try your suggestions, see what happens if I choose reset character. There you go. Good idea. They did that. And then I delete all my type by mistake. Okay, so let's not do that one more time. It's because it's black. So here's a little tip. Black text on a black background does not work very well. There we go. If I hide my tight night and see I'm getting the rough equivalent of wrapping, type around a shape now decided that a little more quickly. So it's a little off, but you get the idea that that's an option if you're able to do it with. I did it with a selection and created kind of a rough shape. But if you could did it yourself, using paths gonna be could still go in and edit this path. He needed to adjust it Now, later on, we talk about templates will talk about how we could add type as part of ah like photography by me or whatever to be on all the photographs. I want a print. You do that once and then use it as part of a template, so well, we'll get into that a little bit later on.