Master the Type Tool
Do you want to handle Type confidently, like a professional in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign?
Working with type is essential to the role of a Graphic Designer. Visual communication mainly relies on the combination and relationship between text and images. In good design, typography is an integral part of the whole composition and in many cases, the entire design will be produced with type being used in all sorts of creative ways.
Learn exactly how to work with all types of fonts, how to organise them on your computer, how to use the type tool to its maximum capability, how to format your type efficiently using keyboard shortcuts and loads more. Plus learn a little about the theory behind Typography!
Course Outline
Here's what you'll learn in more detail
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Useful Resources for Creative Professionals
- Useful Resources
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Introduction to Typography
- Introduction FREE PREVIEW
- Examples of use of type FREE PREVIEW
- What is a font? FREE PREVIEW
- Types of fonts
- How to choose a font?
- Serif and Sans Serif
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3
Adding and editing type
- Typing
- Adding type
- Choosing and changing color FREE PREVIEW
- Editing type and useful keyboard shortcuts
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4
Advanced type techniques
- Text frames and Threading FREE PREVIEW
- Text frame options
- Text warp
- Type on a path
- Type inside an object FREE PREVIEW
- Drop caps
- Customize fonts
- Wrap text around an object
- Character and Paragraph styles
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