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How to use Photoshop CS5 - Part 7: Design and present with the Type Character Panel Picture 9 Underline : Add an underlined line below the selected text
How to use Photoshop CS5 - Part 7: Design and present with the Type Character Panel Picture 10 Strikethrough : Add a dashed line through all the currently selected text.
Options Panel and Type Tool
There are a few options that are not available in the Character Panel, but you can find them in the toolbar at the top of the working screen - Options Panel - when selecting the Type tool (T)
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How to use Photoshop CS5 - Part 7: Design and present with the Type Character Panel Picture 12 Text Orientation : This option is used to adjust the orientation of the text vertically or horizontally.
How to use Photoshop CS5 - Part 7: Design and present with the Type Character Panel Picture 13 Alignment : Set the alignment of the specified text objects in the left margin ( Left Aligned ), right ( Right Aligned ) or center ( Center Aligned )
How to use Photoshop CS5 - Part 7: Design and present with the Type Character Panel Picture 14 Warp Text : Bending the text object in a defined shape, this shape can also adjust the curvature / tilt accordingly. This option is often used in case the text object created is a banner .
Design a simple book cover
The design must be accompanied by the actual application, so the user will be able to understand how the basic knowledge is useful. The tutorial in this section is to create a basic book cover, the book By The Origin of Species By Mean of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin .
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Press Ctrl + L to open the Levels tool and re-adjust Darwin's image. In design, the layout of the appropriate position to present components is quite basic.
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Once the image has been darkened, go to Image > Mode > Grayscale , hold Ctrl and click on the Gray channel in Panel Channels. This will create a selection of all the white areas of the image.
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Press Ctrl + Shift + N to create a new layer
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Go to Edit > Fill to fill the white layer with the selected layer.
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The icon of Darwin now stands out from the black background and you can use it as an element to create the cover
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Press Ctrl + N to create a new file in the size of your cover.
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And this is a very long framework, equivalent to the book
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Select any foreground color in the toolbox, dark color is best suited.
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Go to Edit > Fill to fill the Foreground color for the book background
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The background will now have the wine color as previously selected.
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Press V to select the Move tool. Open the original file with the previously edited Darwin image and drag the layer you just edited into the image frame of the new image with the Move tool.
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The image layer just dragged should lie above the background of the new file.
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Press the T key or select the Type tool
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Not all fonts are suitable. Font in pixel point is not suitable in this case.
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A classic font will be more suitable.
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To choose the right font is not entirely simple, it can be the most difficult and time-consuming task, but is the most important of the design.
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Change the font size and divide the book title into 2 lines. Once you have selected the appropriate font, adjust the Character Panel to get the right format.
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After adjusting the size, you need to make additional adjustments about Leading
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Then comes the problem of letter spacing. Increase the size of Tracking to make the title easy to read
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Add information to the title with smaller fonts and rearrange Darwin images
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You can add additional graphic elements to reduce the monotone part of the cover.
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Just a few basic points, you have a pretty simple book cover that is still beautiful. Design is not about finding or drawing a beautiful image but having to find a place to put that image appropriately.
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