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December 7, 2009

Kerning, Tracking, Adjusting leading in a paragraph of type in Photoshop.

Filed under: Graphic Design I, Hays, M — Tags: Adjusting leading, kerning, leading, tracking — malloryha @ 7:44 am

Mallory Hays December 4, 2009

Kerning, Tracking, Adjusting leading in a paragraph of type in Photoshop.

(Pg. 395-396)

Kerning:

· On the Layers palette, double-click a T icon.

· Click to create an insertion point between any two characters.

· Display the Character palette. (You can go up to Window, and then down to character).

· Choose Metrics from the Kerning pop up menu on the Character palette to apply the font’s built-in kerning.

· You can also drag left or right over the kerning icon located on the Character palette.

· Another way you can do it is by clicking where you want the kerning to occur, and hold down Alt/Option and press the left or right arrow.

Tracking:

· Works pretty much the same way as kerning, except with the tracking icon which is on the Character palette beside the Kerning icon.

Leading:

· You will want to type a paragraph first.

· Then double click on the T icon on the layer that you want to adjust the leading.

· Then click and drag on the leading icon located on the Character palette.

· For finer increments of leading, hold down Alt/Option while clicking and dragging on the leading icon.

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October 4, 2009

Leading, Kerning and Tracking; Spell Check

Filed under: Graphic Design I, Rhodes, K — Tags: kerning, leading, spell check, tracking — kaylenrh @ 7:50 pm

Leading, Kerning and Tracking; Spell Check

· Leading

o Change leading via Character Palette

§ Select horizontal type. Highlight the text you’d wish to alter i.e. single lines, entire paragraph

§ On the Character Palette, enter a Leading value and press return/enter. You may also select a preset leading value from the pop-up menu.

o Change leading via keyboard

§ Select the type as you would in step one above.

§ Option-press/alt-press the up arrow on the keyboard to decrease the leading or the down arrow to increase the leading. The leading will change according to the size/leading specifications in Preferences > Type.

§ Hold down cmd-option/ctrl-alt as you press an arrow to change the leading by 5x the current size/leading increment.

· Kerning and Tracking

o Change Kerning and Tracking via Character Palette

§ Zoom in on the type you want to apply kerning or tracking to.

§ Choose type tool, then click to create an insertion point between two characters for kerning, or highlight a range of text for tracking. Or to track all the type in an object, choose the Selection tool, the click the object.

§ In the Kerning or Tracking area on the Character palette, enter a positive value (up to 10000) to add space between the characters, or enter a negative value (down to -10000) to remove space; then press return/enter. You may also choose a preset value from the pop-up menu.

o Change Kerning and Tracking via keyboard.

§ Option-press/alt-press the right arrow on the keyboard to add space between letters or the left arrow to remove space between letters. The spacing will change according to the Tracking specifications in Preferences > type.

· Checking Spelling

o Choose Edit > Check spelling. In the dialog box, click Start. This will begin checking your document for misspelled words.

o For any word, you can click Ignore to leave it in its current state.

o You may add words to the dictionary Edit > Edit Custom Dictionary. Here you may change, add, or delete words.

o When finished checking, click Done.

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