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Lynda.com 出品的Photoshop文字特效设计要点视频教程。由Nigel French讲解Photoshop文字特效的原理，它有区别于InDesign或Illustrator的文本效果滤镜，Photoshop的某型文字特效处理是独一无二的。在本教学中，Nigel演示了运用文字特效的技术，比如输入和编辑文本，文字层互动，颜色调整，透明度，特效文字字符和段落格式。本教程附带练习文件。

Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials with Nigel French

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

For this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French explains the fundamentals of working with type in Photoshop, distinguishing when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop unique for certain type treatments. This course demonstrates essential techniques, such as entering and editing text; interacting with type layers; and adjusting the color, transparency, character and paragraph formatting of type.

Topics include:

• The pros and cons of setting type in Photoshop
• Setting type preferences
• Choosing fonts
• Sizing type
• Entering glyphs and special characters
• Tracking and kerning type
• Using Baseline Shift
• Working with OpenType fonts
• Justifying and aligning paragraphs
• Masking type with clipping masks
• Warping type
• Converting type to shape layers