Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Five:
While we're in the Type panel, let's go
ahead and highlight our text so we can
change the color to white (easier to read
over this particular photo) by clicking on
the black Character color swatch, and
when the Character color picker appears,
clicking on the white swatch. Now, click
on the Align Left button at the bottom of
the Type panel. Look how close the text
is to the left edge (it's right on it). If you
want to offset that text (scoot it out a little
from the edge), there isn't a slider for that.
Instead, click off the photo (in that white
area around it), then hover your cursor
over the left end of the text box and it will
change to a two-headed arrow. Now you
can click-and-drag your text over to the
right a bit (as shown here).
Note
: I have to
warn you: getting this two-headed arrow
cursor to actually appear may take a few
tries. It's, shall we say, “finicky.” You can
also use it to drag the text box up/down
by moving it over the top/bottom of the
text box. Again, finicky though.
Step Six:
All the other standard controls that you'd
expect for working with type are here
(like Size, Opacity, and Leading [the space
between two lines of text]), but there are
also some more advanced type controls
that I didn't expect (like Tracking [the
space between all the letters in a word],
Kerning [the space between two in-
dividual letters], and Baseline [shifting a
letter or number above or below the line
the text sits on—helpful for writing things
like H
2
O]). And, of course, you can choose
your Font and Style (bold, italic, and so
on) from the menus near the top. But, at
the very top is a very handy thing—Text
Style presets, which are already set up
using popular fonts and styles. So, if you're
working on a wedding book and choose
Title - Wedding, you get a font style that's
appropriate for wedding photo books.
A nice time saver.
