Typography, the Art of Text – Basix
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Typography, the Art of Text – Basix

on Feb 16th 2011 with 36 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 10 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 11 of 29 in the Photoshop Basix Session
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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 11: Typography, the Art of Text will explain working with type layers, kerning, keyboard shortcuts, and resousse. Let’s get started!

 
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  • Dustin

    When I select my text layer, then choose 3D > Repousse > Text Layer.. , Photoshop CS5 tells me “This text layer must be rasterized before proceeding. Its text will no longer be editable. Rasterize the text?”

    Why doesn’t that message show up for you?

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Dustin,

      I checked the “Don’t show this question again” when the warning turned up. I usually get rid of all warnings after I red them once. I don’t like being stopped by unnecessary things. I’m sorry that it confused you. To be able to create a 3D layer the text has to be rasterised.

      Martin

  • http://www.exabytedesigns.com/blog/ Khalid Majid Ali

    Very useful tips and tricks, Great tutorial.

  • http://www.mosterbox.com.br ph

    His accent is great! :D

  • http://mg.gs URL

    This is just superb :)

  • miro

    very nice! good job :)

  • trevor

    Once again a Top class Tut.

  • http://www.mjironing.co.uk Bradley

    Great article, this will teach me a lot when it comes to making changes to my website. Thank you.

  • http://leonking.com.ua leonking

    Particularly enlightening to hear about how you can change the size between the letters, and phrases anywhere. Thank you!

  • pauch

    Thank you so much for this tutorial martin, really helps a lot. :)

  • ahmad

    great thnx

  • http://smashingwall.com Akhtar @Smashingwall

    Quite good typography technique… Impressive…

  • http://blofair.com Adnan

    i think this technology is very helpful and awesome….awesome topic

  • http://www.l4u.dk/ Kasper

    Nice intro to text and typography, thx

  • http://www.shaneparkerphoto.com Shane Parker

    Really basic stuff here, but great tutorial nonetheless. One quick tip, instead of hitting the “confirm” checkmark and/or command+enter to confirm your text, you can also use the Enter key by the number pad on your keyboard. It acts differently than the regular Enter [Return] key when working in Photoshop. It works this way with many of the other tools, also.

  • http://www.swift.co.il tutness

    Once again, great tutorial. I’ve been using Photoshop for a while, and still I always enjoy learning new shortcuts (and yeay! I look forward to your views on masking) or ways to do what I’ve set to do.

    One comment I do have though, is that the 3D text portion of the tutorial could have easily been replaced with a more interesting aspect of text – such as text on a path or a shape. I understand that that would require and introduction to using the pen tool, paths and shapes, and that some might consider it an “Illustrator” kind of task anyway, but I think it’s equally important to know how to do those things in Photoshop, and even though I am familiar with how to do it, I’m sure you could’ve shed some light and made things more understandable even for the likes for me :)

    Anyway, Thanks for doing what you do, you’re great!

  • http://www.yetanotherstudio.com Ching

    Simple but GREAT tips, thanks but I also find the final product a little plain.

  • http://www.artofconcept.com Art of Concept

    Very useful! So detailed and well explained! Thanks! Great stuff!

  • pappu

    Great tutorials Martin!! You mentioned about the next tutorial on masking. Where can I find it? Or are you yet to upload it?

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      We haven’t published the next one in the series yet.

      • pappu

        Thanks Grant for letting me know. Do you know when it will be published? Also, is there a schedule of when you will be publishing remaining videos? I remember reading somewhere that it’s a series of 25 videos.
        Thanks.

      • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

        We usually publish these tutorials on Wednesday. Except this Wednesday, Feb 23, one will not be published.

  • http://drho.ro DrHo.ro

    What materials and light settings did you use to get the “Final Product” Image at the top of the page?

  • Dave

    Hi Martin
    Am enjoying your basix tutorials..puzzled tho as it says at the top of the page youre doing 25 tutorials, but there are only 11 that i can see..please can you tell me where the other 14 are?
    Many thanks
    Dave

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      It’s just because I haven’t uploaded the other 14 tutorials yet.

  • http://rt-now.com/ robb

    Thanks, Good stuff.

  • http://autoridadecrista.com João Victor

    Thanks a lot for this tutorial!
    A great teacher with a very understandable English!
    God bless you!

  • Sergej Müller

    Thanks for this great tutorial. I’m new in Photoshop and for any reason the resize shortcut for the text (cmd + shift + , / .) doesn’t work.

    Would be great, if somebody could help me.

    Many thanks.

    Sergej

  • Atanas Nikolov

    Hi, i don’t know why i have this error when i click Reppouse: Could not complete the Text Layer command because the type uses a faux bold style. If someone know how to help me with this.. :)) He will be great!

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Atanas,

      Faux bold means the selected font doesn’t have its own bold character set so Photoshop simulates bold from the regular characters. You need to turn off the bold option or choose a different font if you want to use the Repousse option.

      Good luck,
      Martin

  • http://robertavanesov.ru/ Robert

    Hi, guys. I from Russia and I love this web site. But I understand no much. All Russian Designers need this web site! Please, translate tutsplus.com and you see how much peoples visit this site!!

  • http://www.indexwebmarketing.com/services/referencement Jeremy Referencement

    I get the same error of faux-bold style.

    What should I do?

  • mohamed omar

    the shortcuts are for mac….what about pc

  • Lizel

    Thank you so much! I now, Love you.. :)

  • Ale Dane

    All those shortcut keys,it gets me confused…I think that you should have shown the panels for caracther and Paragraph,and explain the changes from there.Anyway thanks for the others great tutorials.

  • Cygnus

    When I select the text layer and want it to transform in a 3D Object there is no Repousse.

    If I go to Edit->Preferences->Performance in GPU Setting there is no video card detected and Enable OpenGL Draw can’t be checked.

    How can I make photoshop detect my video card.I’m pretty sure that I have installed a VGA from Intel.

    PLEASE ,SOMEONE ..A SOLUTION!!

    Greetings,
    Alex