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Using leading, kerning, and tracking

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Using leading, kerning, and tracking

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In the next few minutes, we're going to take a look at the leading, kerning, and tracking options in Photoshop, as well as a few shortcuts for working with type layers. I'll tap the T key in order to select the type tool again, because I want to add type to my type layer. Let's zoom in using Command plus once and then twice, and then I'll use the space bar in order to reposition this. Then to add another line of type, I'll click right to the right of the Y in city, and tap Return or Enter. Then I'm going to type in the crossroads of the West. In order to select all of the text on this line of type, I'm going to triple click and then we can change the font size. I'll bring this down to maybe 25 or so. That looks a little too small. Let's go up to 27. Now I want to change the vertical space between the two lines of text. We're going to do this using the leading. We can click and drag with our scrubby sliders on the text, or we can choose one of the values from the dropdown menu, or we…

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