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Creative Suite How-To: Working with Typography
You can make great-looking type in any Adobe Creative Suite application. It's easy, thanks to Version Cue.
Written by Steve Holmes on January 7, 2005
Categories: Graphics, Graphics Image Editing, Illustration, Photo Image Editing, Print, Print Design & Layout, How-Tos
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This video tutorial is excerpted from "Adobe Creative Suite -- From Design to Delivery with Steve Holmes."
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Typography is perhaps one of the most compelling aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite -- especially when you tap into the workflow features of Version Cue.
In the Creative Suite, typography works the same way across applications, making it easy to make sophisticated type treatments in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
In this video clip (4 minutes 11 seconds as a 6.1 MB download), you will learn the following:
- How to add a headline;
- Draw a text frame & place text in it;
- Format the text & optical kerning.
In the full Total Training Presents: Adobe Creative Suite -- From Design to Delivery training series, you will learn techniques for page layout, text wrapping, preflighting, web design, and more.
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Don't highlight the two characters you want to kern (that's TRACKING), instead CLICK once between the two characters then you can manually enter numbers via the TOOLBAR or CHARACTER PALLETTE or use OPT + LEFT ARROW and/or OPT + RIGHT ARROW
Working with type
Your article was pretty elementary which is okay for newbies... In indesign I would really like to know if there is a way to kern 2 letters closer together... the optical/metric is an "okay" global feature, but I find indesign falls behind quark when it comes to individual letter kerning. Highlighting 2 characters and adjusting the spacing seems to affect the letters after the selection more than the selection itself. I am also looking for a keyboard command for ease of use in making these kerning changes. (quark has had this feature since day 1)(or at the very least day 2). I like working in indesign and this simple addition would make it the ultimate tool for me.