Tài iệu Photoshop cs5 by Dayley part 85 ppt

After you have applied the layer style, the applied effects are added to the vector text layer in the Layers panel, where you can edit them.. FIGURE 18.12 Because vector text is applied

the layer style adjustments and apply them to the vector text layer After you have applied the layer style, the applied effects are added to the vector text layer in the Layers panel, where you can edit them For example, Figure 18.12 shows applying the Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Bevel and Emboss, Gradient Overlay, and Stroke effects to a vector text layer

FIGURE 18.12

Because vector text is applied as a layer, you can use the Layer Style option to apply a variety of layer

styles to your text

Layer Style button

Cross-Ref

You can do lots of different things when applying layer styles to vector text layers For more information about

layer styles and how to apply them, see Chapter 10 n

Using the Character panel

Most of the settings that you apply to text can be done from the Character panel shown in Figure 18.13 The Character panel provides most of the options found in the Type tool options menu and several additional ones that help you define the behavior and appearance of the text

FIGURE 18.13

The Character panel provides most of the necessary options to format text

Font size Font family

Kerning Vertical scale

Baseline shift

Language

Faux bold

Superscript Subscript

Underline Strikethrough Anti-aliasing Color Horizontal Scale Tracking Leading Font style

Small caps All caps Faux Italics

From the Character panel, you can set the following attributes of the text:

l Font Family: This option allows you to select the font family from a drop-down menu

You can use the Type preferences settings discussed earlier in this chapter to have Photoshop display a sample of the font next to the font name that makes it easier for you

to select an appropriate font because you can see how it looks in the sample

l Font Style: This option allows you to select a typeface font such as italic, bold, hard,

light, strong, and so on The available options depend on the fonts contained in the type-face that is selected

l Font Size: This option allows you to set the size of the font used when displaying the text

You can select the font size from the drop-down list, type the size into the text field, or hover the mouse over the Font Size option until the icon changes to a bidirectional arrow, which you then drag left or right to decrease or increase the value By default, font size is specified in point units; however, you can change that by adjusting the Type setting in the Units and Rulers settings of the general preferences panel in Photoshop

Tip

The actual size varies between different fonts You should first select the font family and font style before

deciding on a font size n

the bottom of the next when there are multiple lines in the text You can set this option to the default of Auto, which is 120 percent of the font size, or you can specify a specific value to provide more or less space between the lines Because the leading measures dis-tance between the bottoms of the lines, if the leading is smaller than the font size, the two lines run into each other

If you have lines of text selected when you adjust the leading value, only those lines are changed If you have no text selected when adjusting the leading, all the lines in the text are adjusted Figure 18.14 shows an example of different leading values

FIGURE 18.14

Adjusting the Leading setting alters the amount of space between the bottoms of two lines

l Kerning: This option specifies the amount of space between the individual characters in a

word The purpose of kerning is to solve the problem that occurs when two letters—for example, WA—look awkward when they are positioned next to each other, as shown in Figure 18.15 Using the Kerning option, you can set the kerning using one of three methods:

l Metrics: This option uses metric information directly from the font to apply kerning

to letters that require it when they are placed next to each other This is by far the best option to use because the metric information is put into the font by the designer and usually is the most accurate To apply metric kerning to text, select the vector text layer and then select Metrics from the Kerning pop-up menu

l Optical: This option uses a Photoshop algorithm that scans the text, calculates the

space between letters, and adjusts the spacing accordingly This is the next best algo-rithm to use because Photoshop is usually pretty accurate at gauging the amount of kerning necessary To apply optical kerning to a word, select the word and then select Optical from the Kerning pop-up menu To apply optical kerning to the entire vector text layer, select the layer and then select Optical from the Kerning pop-up menu

l Manual: If neither of these methods works for you, you can always manually adjust

the kerning by setting a specific value in the Kerning option To set the kerning value manually, position the cursor between the two letters in Text Edit mode and set the value in the kerning option You also can use the Alt/Option+ left or right arrow keys

on the keyboard to adjust the kerning between the two letters in increments of 20

FIGURE 18.15

Adjusting the kerning in words makes letter sequences that look awkward, such as WA, appear more aesthetically pleasing

l Tracking: This option specifies the amount of space between the leading edge of one

character and the leading edge of the next Tracking is measured in positive and negative

values Adjusting the tracking negatively, called tight tracking, makes letters close together

Adjusting the tracking positively, called loose tracking, makes the letters spread out To

adjust the amount of tracking in a vector text layer, select the vector text layer and set the value in the Tracking option To adjust the tracking of a specific word or set of words, select the text you want to adjust the tracking for and then adjust the value in the Tracking option

Note

Both the Tracking and Kerning options are measured in 1/1000 em, where em refers to the width of the

lower-case m in the current font and font size The reason em units are used is that if you change the font or font size

later, Photoshop needs to adjust the tracking and kerning accordingly n

l Vertical Scale: This option adjusts the vertical height of characters in relation to the

cur-rent font size setting The scaling is based on percentages, so 100 percent uses the normal font height, but 200 percent uses double the normal font height The width is not changed by this setting You can use this setting to adjust the entire vector text layer or just the selected text

l Horizontal Scale: This option adjusts the horizontal width of characters in relation to the

current font size setting The scaling is based on percentages, so 100 percent uses the nor-mal font width, but 200 percent uses double the nornor-mal font width The height is not changed by this setting You can use this setting to adjust the entire vector text layer or just the selected text

l Baseline Shift: This setting specifies the position of the bottom of the selected text in

rela-tion to the baseline This oprela-tion is measured in the same units that font size is measured

in, which is points by default This option accepts both positive and negative values

Positive values raise the characters above the baseline, while negative values lower the characters below the baseline The baseline shift gives you much more control than simply applying a subscript or superscript format to the text

l Color: This option launches the Select Text Color dialog box, which allows you to set the

style options to the selected text while you are in Edit mode or to the entire vector text layer if you have selected only the vector text layer in the Layers panel: Faux Bold, Faux Italics, All Caps, Small Caps, Superscript, Subscript, Underline, and Strikethrough

l Language: This option specifies the language option to use for the text when applying

hyphenation, spell checking, and other language-specific text options

l Anti-aliasing: This option allows you to set the anti-aliasing method that Photoshop uses

to render the edges of the font on the screen Anti-aliasing tries to smooth the square edge effect by filling in the sharp edges and blend the text with the background The more anti-aliasing you do, the smoother the transition, although being too aggressive with anti-alias-ing can produce artifacts around the edges of the text You can select the followanti-alias-ing anti-aliasing options:

l None: This option applies no anti-aliasing to the text.

l Sharp: Text appears sharpest.

l Crisp: Text appears somewhat sharp.

l Strong: Type appears heavier.

l Smooth: This option adds the most amount of smoothing around the edges.

Tip

Too much anti-aliasing can result in some color artifacts around the edges of the font and may produce

incon-sistent results when producing low-resolution images such as those used on the Web To reduce the

inconsis-tency, deselect the Fractal Width option in the Character panel menu n

The Character panel menu allows you to set the following additional options:

l Change Text Orientation: This option allows you to toggle the text between vertical and

horizontal orientation This option applies to all the text in the vector text layer

l OpenType: The OpenType options menu allows you to toggle on and off the OpenType

features that are available for the selected font You can use this setting to adjust the fea-tures for an entire vector text layer by selecting the vector text layer in the Layers panel or just the selected text Figure 18.16 shows some examples of the changes in text when you apply some of the OpenType features The following is a list of the features that

Photoshop supports:

l Standard Ligatures: Typographic replacements for certain pairs of characters, such as

fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl

l Contextual Alternates: Alternative characters included in some typefaces that

pro-vide better joining behavior

l Discretionary Ligatures: Typographic replacement characters for additional character

pairs, such as ct, st, and ft

l Swash: Substitutes swash glyphs for certain characters Swash glyphs are stylized

letter-forms with extended strokes or exaggerated flourishes

l Old Style: Replaces numerals with numerals that are shorter than regular numerals

Some old style numerals are placed with their bottoms below the type baseline

l Stylistic Alternates: Replaces certain characters with stylized forms for a more

pleas-ing aesthetic effect

l Titling Alternatives: Formats characters, typically in all capitals, for use in large type

settings, such as titles

l Ornaments: Adds a personal signature to the type family These special characters can

be used as title page decoration, paragraph markers, dividers for blocks of text, or as repeated bands and borders

l Ordinals: Automatically formats ordinal numbers such as 1st and 2nd with

super-script characters

l Fractions: Automatically converts fractions separated by a slash to a shilling fraction.

FIGURE 18.16

Applying the OpenType options can add some nice features to the way text appears in the image

l Fractional Widths: When this option is selected, the tracking applied to the text can use

values that do not exactly conform to the pixel width on the screen Enabling fractional widths allows the text to be very clear and readable You should leave it enabled most of the time The only time that you may need to disable it is if you are using very small fonts

in images that will be displayed on a computer screen—for example, Web graphics

l System Layout: When you set this option, Fractional Widths is turned off and

Anti-Aliasing is set to None This option is typically used only when you are preparing images

to only be used on a small computer screen—for example, a cell phone or PDA

l No Break: When this option is selected, the selected words are not hyphenated by

Photoshop

l Reset Character: This option resets the selected text to the Photoshop defaults This is

useful if you end up making so many changes to the text that you can’t figure out why it doesn’t look right

Using the Paragraph panel

Many of the layout settings that you apply to text can be done from the Paragraph panel shown in Figure 18.17 The Paragraph panel provides the same alignment options found in the Type tool options menu and several additional ones that help you define layout of the text paragraphs

FIGURE 18.17

The Paragraph panel provides most of the necessary options to format paragraphs

Allign Left

Allign Center

Allign Right Justify Left

Justify Center Justify Right Justify All

Add Space After Paragraph Indent

Right Margin

Add Space

Before Paragraph

Indent First Line

Indent

Left Margin

From the Paragraph panel, you can set the following attributes of the text:

l Align Left: This aligns the text to the left margin, with no justification.

l Align Center: This aligns the text to the center, with no justification.

l Align Right: This aligns the text to the right margin, with no justification.

l Justify Left: This aligns the last line to the left margin, with justification in the rest.

l Justify Center: This aligns the last line to the center, with justification in the rest.

l Justify Right: This aligns the last line to the right margin, with justification in the rest.

l Justify All: This fully justifies the paragraph including the last line.

l Indent Left Margin: This specifies the amount to indent the paragraph relative to the left

margin Only the selected paragraph is affected by this setting

l Indent Right Margin: This specifies the amount to indent the paragraph relative to the

right margin Only the selected paragraph is affected by this setting

l Indent First Line: This specifies the amount to indent the first line of each paragraph.

l Add Space Before Paragraph: This specifies the amount of space to add before the

para-graph This setting is in addition to the leading setting that can be set in the Character panel

l Add Space After Paragraph: This specifies the amount of space to add after the

para-graph This setting is in addition to the leading setting that can be set in the Character panel

l Hyphenate: When this option is selected, Photoshop tries to hyphenate words that fall

beyond the right edge of the bounding box

The Paragraph panel menu allows you to set the following additional options:

l Roman Hanging Punctuation: When this option is enabled, punctuation such as single

quotes, double quotes, apostrophes, commas, periods, hyphens, em dashes, colons, and semicolons appear outside of the margin This allows justified text to flow evenly down the right margin with the punctuation hanging over the edge

l Justification: This loads the Justification dialog box, shown in Figure 18.18, where you

can set options to control how Photoshop performs justification on the paragraph From this dialog box, you can set the ranges that Photoshop uses for the word, letter, and glyph and the amount of leading to automatically apply to the paragraph when performing justification

FIGURE 18.18

The Justification dialog box allows you to customize how Photoshop justifies text in the paragraph

l Hyphenation: This loads the Hyphenation dialog box, shown in Figure 18.19, where you

can set options to control how Photoshop hyphenates words in the paragraph From this dialog box, you can set the minimum word size, the minimum characters required on both sides of the hyphen, maximum hyphen limit, and whether to hyphenate capitalized words

l Reset Paragraph: This resets the paragraph options to the Adobe default values This is

useful if you make too many changes and simply want to start over

The Hyphenation dialog box allows you to customize how Photoshop hyphenates words in the paragraph

Using the Character and Paragraph Styles panels

Photoshop CS5 adds two new panels that can save you lots of time and effort when utilizing text in your images The Character and Paragraph Styles panels available in the Window menu of

Photoshop allow you to create character and paragraph presets that you can save, load, and quickly select during your editing workflow Using presets allows you to organize text formatting and quickly format text

Note

The Character and Paragraph Styles presets apply to the selected text in a text box when in text edit mode or

the entirety of text in the box when not in text edit mode n

Character Styles

The Character Styles Panel, shown in Figure 18.20, allows you to create and manage the character style presets using the following options from the buttons on the bottom and panel menu:

l Clear Override/Clear Modification: If you make any adjustments to the text using the

Type tool options or the Character panel, those changes revert to the values defined for the preset

l Redefine Style: Any adjustments to the text using the Type tool options or the Type panel

are applied to the preset and the preset is saved

l New Character Style: Creates a new character style preset.

l Delete Style: Deletes the currently selected character style preset.

l Style Options: Launches a dialog box, shown in Figure 18.20, that allows you to define

the values used in the preset that are be applied to the text when the character style is selected The Character Style Options dialog box contains the following three panels that allow you to define the character settings discussed earlier in this chapter: