All language subtitles for 6. Working With Text

All right in the previous lesson we were fine.

The hair and it wasn't quite perfect yet it looked a little bit like this at least it did for me.

And I went ahead and spent a little bit more time cleaning it up.

You can do that on your own time if you want to.

But we're going to continue on we're going to add some type Achrafieh obviously the event details are

important as well as maybe some images and perhaps let's change the background from purple to something

that that's a little bit better.

So what we're going to do now.

Going to the letter T T.

My type tool.

I'll click once in here and I'll start typing in.

In this case I've already got my details so I'll copy this.

We'll pretend this guy's name is John Singer.

Whoops.

So clicking here come v to paste enter to commit my letter and the reason why is when this is still

selected after I pasted it I trying it the letter to the to my letter or any other tools.

Obviously those who call those are all characters so none of my shortcuts work when I am inside of the

text here so when hit command V I'll hit enter on my 10 keypad or I can click on the check mark up here

to now commit that text.

And now I can use any sites any shortcuts I want in this case.

I have the letter V to move it around.

Remember that shortcut command t to do the free transform and this will let me scale it up.

Now if you get tired of having to hold the shift key to keep it in perspective to keep the ratio you

know how it's supposed to be.

You can come up here and click on this little link icon between the width and the height.

Click on that and now no matter where I scrub.

No drag.

It'll stay the same perspective without skewing it.

I can also scrub right here on the W on the width and the heights to make this bigger or smaller.

But in this case I want to drag it a little bit larger and I'm just going to stick with Helvetica.

For this font.

Quick side note.

Now this is with the whole course as a whole if you want to become a great graphic designer.

You need to keep studying keep learning everything you can.

So what I thought I would show you is this movie Helvetica right.

You can rent it on Amazon or buy it from Amazon on Netflix if you have the DVD subscription you could

get it from there too.

I'd highly recommend checking that out.

It's great great little documentary about the font Helvetica.

Where it came from and some designers love it some designers hate it but it's worth knowing.

Whatever you decide to choose in your design why you chose it.

Not just you know throw it out there so what we're gonna do now.

I need to get my type tool again and I'm going to click right between that space click and drag return

to put this on two lines.

And now to do is hit command a to highlight all of it and now command option and then the up or down

arrow keys.

Change is what we call the Letting back in the day when the set fonts that ash put physical pieces of

lead between the font characters.

And if you watch that whole vertical movie you'll learn more about that anyway.

So we're changing the width which again is called letting.

Another way to do that and again I'm pulling command option in the upper down arrow control alt up and

down on a PC.

I can also open up my type window if I go to window and down to character.

It adds that little shortcut here to my menu bar and you can see we can change the font size.

Right here is our letting.

So this guy selected I can scrub here and change that gap size K so that's another way to make that

change.

What I was doing it had it all selected command a and again command option up or down.

And you can see as I do that this number over here is changing time.

So again shortcuts will help you blaze through designs much faster and get your ideas out as quick as

possible.

I also have right here.

I typed it out lower case but I hit command shift K to toggle on this all caps.

So I want this to be all caps.

Once I get my change I want it hit enter and now command.

I want to scale it up a little bit.

Now let's pretend like this guy is super famous and everybody knows him.

He's some kind of a rockstar singer so we can get away with.

I'm going to make this a little bit smaller.

And never hold on shift.

It goes by a factor of 10 right here.

So if I hold down shift and go up and down it's 20 30 40 50 60 OK it goes faster or I can take my finger

off of shift and go.

Basically one point at a time.

So a stack that right on top of itself.

It's a letter V to get moved tool and I am going to move this up behind and when you did this.

Your type was your type.

Later was probably on top here and again that's where layers are so awesome because I can come over

here I'll click on him and I'll drag this up above.

Or you can hit command in the left bracket or right bracket keys.

Those are the ones right next to your letter P.

So if you're lucky you get a piano keyboard.

The very next one that square bracket hit command and it will send my letter below.

Or if I hit the next one it will send my letter above.

I can go here to layer and that's fine that arr. down here.

This is what I'm doing.

These are no shortcuts ok to move those layers up or down.

So we got him in front and again this protecting this guy is super famous.

Everybody knows him so we could get away with really cropping this to where it's almost an legible you

know or maybe you'll lose some of his letters.

Or maybe you want to keep it to where if somebody is not familiar with his artist it still can legible

but that's where you have to choose.

You want to be you know cutting edge and do something crazy which would be kind of cool.

Kind of like a magazine style or if it needs to be more of a functional piece where you don't want any

information to be lost so that's up to you as a graphic designer who's communicating to make those decisions

.

So we've got a text or we want it.

Let's go ahead and bring in the other text here.

So a lot of times what I'll do is I'll just copy all of this command c come here and I'll click once

.

There's a couple ways it can work.

Click once and paste this which brings it all in like this not inside of a text box so I don't have

the option to reflow my text or with my text to I can click and drag and it makes a box within my text

fits within.

So the reason why that would be important is let's say this is bigger and I'm using command shift and

the period key or command shift comma to make it bigger or smaller.

And inside of a text box as I click and drag it will reflow my text to fit in that box.

This is great for paragraphs and things like that.

So again as to click once and paste with my type tool or click and drag to make that box OK.

And these are all little things.

We'll learn more as we go.

But just so you know what I'm doing that.

OK.

So here we've got the details.

Now here is where you would not want the details to hide behind a shoulder.

Otherwise people won't show up on time.

So we need to find a creative way to enclose this information and bring it in front.

So first and foremost write command shift in the right bracket key.

So it's not the one right next to the letter P But the the one after that to bring this letter all the

way to the front.

Again that was under layer arrange bring different.

That's what I did.

OK.

So we've got to in the front and better type in here and we're going to use the same font Helvetica

And let's go ahead and pause right here and in the next lesson what we'll do is we'll work with shapes

and textures to start really bringing this thing to life.