Week 6

Chapter 9&10

This chapter is mostly about text, editing text, things we can do with text and more.

Type is made of vectors. It creates a new layer.
Options include orientation, font family, font style, size, anti-aliasing, justification, font color and warp settings.

There are two ways to type things on Photoshop:

• point text : click on the image and type.
• text box : click and drag on the image and type.

We can control the type attributes in the Character palette.

From second row, left to right, top to bottom: Kerning, Tracking, Vertical Scale, Horizontal Scale, Baseline Shift.

Once you rasterize the type layer, it cannot be edited.

Paragraph = series of words created when you start typing and ends when you press enter.

There are 15 ways to distort/warp text: Arc, Arc Lower, Arc Upper, Arch, Bulge, Shell Lower, Shell Upper, Flag, Wave, Fish, Rise, Fisheye, Inflate, Squeeze, Twist.

With what I learned this week, I made these: